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so mucli as a morsel of wood or putty. Having dressed the bride, 

 Rani Ketaki, in wedding-garments, and having seated her in this 

 saloon, when it wanted six hours of the fourteenth night, they sent 

 for the bridegroom. Prince Uday-bhan, in the form of Krishna, 

 with a crown on his head, and a wreath over his face arrived with 

 pomp and attendants, like the moon at its rising. The recitations 

 of the Brahmans and Pandits, the customs which obtain among 

 kings, the going round the bride and bridegroom, and the tying of 

 the knot, all were duly performed. " Now Uday-bhan and Rani 

 Ketaki have met: the flower of hope which had withered has 

 bloomed again : when each was separate from the other they had 

 no rest, and so they began to live with one another day and night. 

 Oh hearer ! this tying of the knot is much, what I have described 

 is little or nothing. Oh Beneficent one, let all those who are drown- 

 ing in a sea of love be saved. May my fortune change as theirs has." 

 The damsels on the flying couches, who were dancing in the air, 



