when he was only ten days old, a prediction was made about the future of the tiger king. what was ironic about it
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The irony is tangible at the end. The Tiger King though tried very hard to prove the astrologer’s prediction false, finally died because of a tiger, though a wooden one. His killing of hundred tigers could not save him.
The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram was most commonly known as the Tiger King. The chief horoscopist predicted that his death would be caused by a tiger particularly the Hundredth Tiger. He became the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram at the age of twenty. He was so aware of the prediction that he began hunting the Tigers not only of his own kingdom but also from his relative's empires. Within a time span of 10 years, he hunted seventy tigers. Moreover, he wanted to marry a girl from the empire which has a large population of tigers. However, he was only able to kill the Ninety-nine Tigers. And as the astrologer predicted the death of the king came in the face of a tiger and "particularly by the hundredth tiger" that was made of wood.
The ironical about this was that despite killing all the tigers in his kingdom, the monarch did eventually become the victim of the hundredth tiger.