The “royal infant” you’re asking about grows up to be the king of Pratibandapuram, famously known as “The Tiger King.”

In the NCERT/CBSE English story “The Tiger King” (by Kalki), the baby prince who is introduced as a royal infant later becomes the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram, an autocratic ruler obsessed with killing one hundred tigers to prove a prediction about his death wrong.