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" If virtue be present, what matters family? The virtuous have 

 no need of family; but a yet more grievous stain on the vicious is 

 the very stainlessness of their family." 



By such and the like saws he was induced to consent and marry 

 her in an auspicious hour. Then he was told the purport of the 

 dream, namely, that he should be king within seven days.''^ When 

 he heard that he was rejoiced, and stayed there happily. On the 

 fifth day he went outside the city and sat down in the shade of a 

 campaka-tree. 



At that time the king of the city died without leaving a son. Then 

 the five royal emblems (magic electors of a king) were consecrated.^* 

 After roaming about within the city they went outside, and came 

 upon Miiladeva. He was discovered sitting in shade that did not 

 shift.^^ On beholding him the elephant roared ; the steed neighed ; the 

 water-pitcher sprinkled ; the chowries fanned ; and the sun-shade®^ 

 stood over Mijladeva. Thereupon the people shouted " Hail, Hail." 

 The elephant lifted him upon his back; he was conducted into the 



63 In Parigistaparvan 8. 231, a pregnant woman desires to drink the moon: 

 it is a sign that her son will become king. The sight of the moon in a dream 

 secures to Madanareha an imperial son, in the story of Nami, Jacobi's 

 "Ausgewahlte Erzahlungen," p. 41, 1. 2;^ fif. ; Kathakoga, p. 19. There are 

 many other dreams and signs of future royalty: In Parigistaparvan 6. 232, 

 the son of a courtezan by a barber dreams that Pataliputra is surrounded by 

 his entrails, whereupon he becomes king of that city. In Jagaddeva's 

 Svapnacintamani, i. 62, we have : " He who surrounds in his dream a city or 

 village with his entrails as a magic instrument, becomes prince in the city, 

 ruler of a province in the village." (Half a dozen parallel verses from other 

 texts are quoted by von Negelein, the editor of this last text.) To be born 

 with teeth is a sign of future kingship, Parigistaparvan 8. 196. In Prabandha- 

 cintamani, p. 80, a three-year old prince seats himself upon the throne, and is 

 immediately crowned king. In the same text, p. 117, a king washes the feet 

 of a hermit, and recognizes by the upward lines on them and other signs, that 

 the hermit is worthy of a throne. 



6* On this curious, widely prevalent magic practice see now Edgerton's 

 paper, JAOS. xxxiii. 158 ff. The list of these five magic electors follows three 

 lines below. 



65 This is a sign of the temporal or spiritual superiority of the person 

 sitting in the shade. Meyer, p. 212, cites several instances from Hindu litera- 

 ture and elsewhere, to which add Prabandhacintamani, p. 16; Kathakoga, p. 97. 



66 pundarikam sitam chattram : Ksemendra's Lokaprakaga, i. 15 ("In- 

 dische Studien," XVIII. 327)- 



