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having formed a canopy over the earth, came down to distribute as 

 an offering for the newly married pair, bags and handfuls of diamonds 

 and pearls. The flying couches still remained in the air like a 

 canopy. In the ceremony of going round seven times by way of 

 offering there were so many that they were crushed together. And 

 the female servants were dazzled at the sight. Raja Indra at his 

 first visit to see the bride gave her a bed made out of a single 

 diamond, and a stool made of a topaz, and placed before the bride- 

 groom the bough of an unknown tree which affords whatever fruit 

 one desires to have, and the calf of the cow Kamdhen tied beneath 

 it, and having selected out of the flying-couch-damsels twenty-one 

 of the most beautiful maids who could sing and play, chaste, 

 obedient, without blemish, gave them to him, and ordered them to 

 converse with Bani Ketaki but not with the bridegroom. "I give 

 you warning before," said he, " otherwise you will all be changed 



