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the vacant throne? Yet this does not tally, because his feet touch 

 the ground and his eyes wink."" The king's mind must be wander- 

 ing for some reason." The minister then concluded that, if the 

 king's mind, inflamed by separation, was to be assuaged, that task 

 could only be accomplished by the nectar of Kamala's speech, and 

 ordered a female attendant to conduct him thence. The false king 

 then reflected : " Ah, what pleasant lot is mine, that has brought me 

 to this station, hard to attain even in imagination ! " 



The Queen arose in confusion, and along with other ministra- 

 tions, prepared for him the throne. But when she looked at the 

 king again she fell to the ground as if in a faint. Her attendants 

 raised her and asked : " What does this mean, your Majesty, tell 

 us?" And the king also said: "How is it, your Majesty, that you 

 are struck in a faint at my arrival ? " On hearing his voice she was 

 greatly pained and thought : " He looks like my beloved, yet afflicts 

 me as an enemy!" Artfully she answered: "Your Majesty! At 

 the time when you started upon your journey I uttered a fond prayer 

 to Candl for your happy return : ' O Goddess, only after paying 

 honor to thee, shall I look with my eye upon my beloved ! ' Now, 

 having failed to do so before seeing you, Candi felled me to the 

 ground. Therefore I shall let you know myself, O king, the time 

 suitable for paying devotion to the goddess." Then the king, thus 

 answered by the queen, went out of the palace. 



Vikrama in the Body of the Elephant Escapes from Avanti 



{174-187). 



At this time the Minister was adorning the state elephanf^ for 

 the royal entry,''- so that the people should see their sovereign at 

 length returned. Also, that the king, seeing his city full of jubilant 

 citizens, should become himself again, and commune with all as of 

 old. Now the menials who were painting the ornamental marks on 



CO Similar personal characteristics of the god are frequently alluded to; 

 they belong to the regular apparatus of fiction. See Nala 5. 23 = Kathas. 

 56. 272; also Kathas. 32. 31 ; 33. 178. See Tawney's "Translation of Kathasa- 

 ritsagara," Vol. I, p. 561, note. 



"* Now inhabited by Vikrama. 



«' So we must translate raja-patyai: the word is not quoted in the 

 Lexicons. 



