164 G. A. Grierson — Analysis of the Padumdwati. [No. 2, 
lake, at the contact of tlieir beauty, becomes clear and the necklace is 
found (64). 
CANTO IY. 
The Adventures of the Parrot. 
While Padmavati was thus sporting, a maidservant went into her 
palace to steal her flowers and betel to give to a lover. The parrot 
remonstrates (G4a). i The maid in a rage twists the parrot’s neck, 
plucks him, and shuts him up in an earthen pot (64 6). The parrot’s 
reflections and self-reproaches. He considers what is best to be 
done (64 c). The maid takes the vessel and throws it and the parrot 
down a well in the forest. The parrot as ho is thrown calls upon 
God (64 d). He has hardly finished his prayer when he sees a fig 
tree hanging over the well. He climbs into it, finds it full of fruit and 
thanks God. His feathers grow again (64 e). 2 He flies away, and 
happens on a part of the forest where the birds treat him with great 
respect. He praises God (65). 
When Padmavati returns, the majoi’-domo tells her that a cat had 
come into the house, and that the parrot had flown away from the cage. 
Her grief. She orders search to be made (66). Her maidens assure 
her that the search is hopeless (67). 
When the parrot has rested a few days in the forest, his fellow 
birds see a hunter, hidden under a screen of leaves, approaching. 
Smitten with terror at the apparently moving tree they fly away, but 
the parrot who is absordcd in contemplation, is struck by the bird catcher’s 
five-pronged rod, and caught by the bird-lime attached to it (68). 
The hunter breaks his wings and thrusts him into a cage with other 
birds, they ask him how a wiseacre like him has been caught (69). The 
parrot explains that it was his own fault. He had become happy and care- 
less, and pride goes before a fall (70). The birds comfort him. They 
agree that the hunter should not be blamed for catching them, but 
their own stupidity and greed (71). 
CANTO Y. 
OlTAUR. 
Citra Sena is king of Citaur. His son is Ratna Sena. Astro- 
logers promise great things for him. Ho will go to Simhala-dvlpa and 
1 From 64(a) to 64(e) is an interpolation, found only in some copies of very 
small authority. The style is different from that of the rest of the poem. 
2 The ordinary editions insert a line here making the parrot escape from his 
cage in Padmavati’s house, 
