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and he said, he would show her. The lute was handed him, and he 

 drew a pebble from the tube, and a hair out of the string.^*' Then 

 he put it in order and began to play. Devadatta and her attendants 

 were transported. A she-elephant nearby which was always in the 

 habit of roaring stood still rocking herself, with her ears down.*" 

 Devadatta and the lute-player in surprise thought : " Verily, he is 

 Vissakamma (the Creator) in disguise!" Then she dismissed the 

 lute-player with presents. 



Dinner-time arrived and Devadatta ordered the massagist, so 

 that they might both bathe. Mijladeva said : " Permit me to do your 

 anointing."-*^ Devadatta asked: "What! do you know this also?" 

 and Muladeva replied : " I do not know it perfectly, but I have stood 

 in the presence of them that know." They brought campaka-oil ; 

 he proceeded to anoint ; she was enchanted. And she thought : 

 " What exceeding skill, what unexcelled touch : he must be some 

 divine personage in disguise ; ordinarily such excellence does not 

 reside in a person of such shape. I must make him disclose his 

 true shape ! " She fell at his feet, and said : " Noble Sir, your unpar- 

 alleled virtues of themselves mark you as a superior person. Such 

 a one is gracious to those who appeal to him, and anxious to oblige. 

 Show me therefore your true self, my heart longs greatly to see 

 you ! " When she kept on importuning, Muladeva, laughing softly, 

 removed the magic pill which had changed him, and assumed his 

 true form. He appeared resplendent as the sun, like the God of 

 Love bewildering all creatures by his beauty, his body abounding in 



39 Marvelous skill in detecting flaws in objects that are supposed to be 

 perfect, Supparaka-Jataka, first part. Cf. the four wonderful house-servants 

 of King Jitari, Weber, "Handschriften-Verzeichniss," Vol. II., p. 1093, bottom; 

 or the skill tricks in Parigistaparvan 8. 170 fif. ; Prabandhacintamani, p. 45. 



40 In Kathakoga, p. 65 ff., occurs a tourney of lute-players for the hand of 

 princess Gandharvadatta: the music of the first quiets a mad elephant; that 

 of the second makes a tree burst into blossom ; that of the third attracts a 

 distant deer ; that of the fourth makes an elephant give up a half devoured 

 sweet ; and, finally, a fifth soothes the entire assembly to sleep. In Prabandha- 

 cintamani, p. 122, the musician Solaka sings so that a dry branch bursts forth 

 into buds. In Kathasaritsagara 11 King Udayana subdues evermore with his 

 lute wild elephants, and taming them brings them home. 



41 One of the sixty-four accomplishments (kala) of the typical man of 

 the world (nayaka). See Schmidt, " Beitrage," p. 143. 



