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there " a long time " with that wife and that son, and then returned 

 to UjjayinI, unable to keep steady company for ever. 



Muladeva is not merely versed in the direct arts, practices, and 

 tricks of love; he is also celebrated in all accessories. He is a culti- 

 vated conversationalist ; brilliant narrator ;, marvelous musician ; ex- 

 pert in massage, perfumes, and ointments ;^^ knows how to send a lady 

 a present ; in fact, man of the world and arbiter elcgantice, or accord- 

 ing to the Hindu Love-Bibles, a typical nayaka, or " hero," who must 

 really control no less than sixty-four accomplishments. These quali- 

 ties come to the fore in Devendra's story. 



In the broader sphere of tradition he, or his double Karnlsuta, is 

 a dhurtapati, "master-thief," and author of a steya-gastra. In the 

 story of Mandiya,^'' another of Devendra's stories, Muladeva, after 

 he has become king of Bennayada, figures as a resourceful thief- 

 catcher (a la Haroun-al-Rashid) ; cf. Kathasaritsagara 88 and 112; 

 Vetalapancavihgati 14 (Civadasa 13). As a corollary to his artistry 

 in this science we may regard the statement that he was an adept 

 in cipher. This is also one of the necessary qualifications of the 

 great Hindu Macchiavelli, the celebrated Canakya, Minister of king 

 Candragupta, who like Richard III, was born with teeth in his 

 mouth."'' Canakya goes by the nick-name Kautilya, i. e., " Crooks."-^ 

 The recent publication of his Arthagastra, or " Science of Politics " 

 is one of the important events of Indology. 



Muladeva is, furthermore, a great magician. In Devendra's story 

 he slaps a hunch-backed female slave upon the back, and, presto, she 

 becomes straight. Particularly he has always at his hands one of 

 those magic pills.-- They are familiar in Devendra's stories ; in the 



IS In Weber's Catalog of the Royal Library in Berlin, vol. I, p. 306, 

 Muladeva is mentioned in a series of authors on personal toilet: snaniya- 

 sugandhisamuddegah . . . mukhavasasamuddegah . . . sarvottamasaurabhya- 

 samuddeqah, and so on. 



'^^ See Jacobi, " Ausgewahlte Erzahlungen," p. 65. 



20 Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, to signify thou 

 earnest to bite the world. Henry VI. 



-^ Cf. Daqakumaracarita i (end) ; Cukasaptati 3 (where Kutila is the 

 name of a rogue). 



-- Gulika, gudika, gutika ; in Vetalapancavingati 14 (Civadasa's version) 

 siddhagutika; in Brhatkathamanjarl 9. 743, yogagutika (correct) ; ibid., 9. 731, 



