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bhan on a flying couch in order to perform the rites. Baja Indra 

 and Gosain Mahandar Gur proceeded with their train seated on the 

 elephant Irapat rocking as they went and looking at every thing. 

 King Suraj-bhan walked along-side the horse of the bridegroom 

 counting his beads. Meanwhile a rumbling noise was heard: all 

 were astonished ; on hearing this the ninety lakhs of jogis, all of 

 them being prepared with numerous pearl-necklaces on their necks 

 and with their breasts similarly adorned, sitting upon the skins of 

 deer and tigers, rejoiced with five-fold joy. All the princesses who 

 attended queen Lachmi Bas in litters and chariots were laughing 

 for joy. Meanwhile there appeared, here the mimes of the Bhartari 

 actors, there Jogi Joypal,and there Mahadev and Parvati. Here Gorakh 

 appeared, and there Muchandar Nath fled. Krishna also appeared 

 under the form of a fish, a tortoise, and a stag. Here Parsiram, 

 Bawanrup, Harnakis and Narsingh, there Earn, Lachman, and Sita 

 appeared. Here Bavan and the whole battle in Lanka, there the 

 eighth-day festival after the birth of Kanhya, and his carrying Paras 

 Deo to Grokal and his growing up with all these wonders attending 

 his history, and his feeding the cows, and his playing the pipe, and 

 his sporting with the milk-maids, and his being devoted to the 

 Hunch-back, and the forest of Kurail and the fig tree and the ghat 

 where the Gopis undressed. There Bindraban, Sewaganj, Barsana 



