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fresh youth and grace. The hair on Devadatta's body stood erect 

 with joy;*- she again fell at his feet, and said, "You have shown me 

 great favor ! " 



Then she anointed him with her own hands, and they both 

 bathed and feasted in great state. She had him dressed in a robe 

 fit for a god, and they passed the time in genteel conversation. 

 Finally she said : " Noble Sir, excepting yourself, my heart has never 

 inclined to any man. As has been truly said : 



" ' Whom may not one see with one's eyes, and with whom may 

 not one hold conversation? Rare, however, is that quality in man 

 which arouses joy in the heart. '*^ 



" Therefore, to please me, you must come to this house quite 

 constantly." 



Muladeva said : " O thou, that art devoted to virtue, an attach- 

 ment to such as me, stranger that I am and poor, is not proper, 

 nor is it likely to endure. As a rule attachments spring from self- 

 interest alone. As the poets say :** 



" ' Birds abandon a tree whose fruit is gone ; cranes a dried-up 

 lake; bees a withered flower; and game a burnt forest.' 



" ' Courtezans abandon an impoverished man ; servants a fallen 

 king. Every person loves from self-interest; no one regards any 

 other attachment.' " 



Devadatta replied : " Own country or strange country are of no 

 consequence to noble men.*^ The poet says : 



" ' The moon, though separated from the ocean, dwells on the 

 head of Hara : wheresoever virtuous men go there they are carried 

 on the head.*® Likewise, wealth is of no consequence ; noble men do 



*2 Horripilation in Hindu stories is produced by joy as well as by fear; 

 e. g., Kathasaritsagara lo, 14, 124. 



43 According to Pavolini, GSAI. ix. 179, note, this stanza recurs in the 

 Gathakoga of Municandrasuri. 



4* The following two stanzas are again in Sanskrit, quoted from an un- 

 known author. 



45 This quasi proverbial statement is nullified by frequent expressions of 

 love for home and country in Sanskrit literature ; see Meyer's " Translation 

 of Dagakumaracarita," p. 222, note. 



46 Hara (Civa) wears the moon, whose original home is the ocean, as 

 a diadem on his head: see Mrcchakatika (Stenzler's edition), p. 64, 1. 10; 

 Samayamatrka 4. 26, 27, 29. 



