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" How, love, am I to see this flower ? 

 Shall we go to the tank to find it ? 

 Went we not near the tank that day ? 

 Let us go to seek it in the morning." 



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Wending their way a tank of water lilies they reached, 

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 Next a grove of nd trees they entered. 

 " This is not the spot, love ! let us go on." 



Thence to groves of vetakeyiyd * and dunukeyiyd f fruitlessly (14), till 

 at length, within a champak grove, Palanga sees a flower reflected in a 

 pond (15). Essaying to climb the tree (16), god Visva-karma aids 

 by bringing a golden ladder (17). In vain Palanga scans the boughs, 

 north, east, west, and south for the flower (18, 19), but sees it at last out 

 of reach on the topmost bough (20). They both lament their ill-luck, 

 until Palanga, with, divine eyes, discovers a sandalwood hooked (sapling) 

 (21). Again Visva-karma assists, providing a golden arekanut cutter 

 with which to cut the hooks (22). 



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