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(88). The maidservant says the Queen has brought it on herself by 
being angry. Anger is a bad thing (89). When the Queen is utterly 
downcast, she returns the parrot to the king, saying to the king that 
she only wished to test him. She consoles him (90). The king adjures 
the parrot to tell the truth about his history (91). The parrot says, 
I am Hiramani, the parrot of Padmavati, Princess of Ceylon, a lady of 
peerless beauty (92). The king’s curiosity is excited. He asks for 
further particulars about Padmavati, and says he would like to go to 
Simliala (93). Parrot describes the charms of Simliala and its women. 
Its king Gandharva Sena and his lovely daughter Padmavati (94). 
The king asks the parrot to say all this over again. It complies, and 
the king becomes enamoured of Padmavati from the parrot’s description 
(95). The parrot warns the king, that the way of love is hard, and 
may cost him his life. ‘ Learn wisdom from the cry of the peacock, “ I 
die, I die,” mueu , mueu, for he hath given himself up to love.’ So 
also other animals are shown as a warning : — the lizard, the ringdove, 
and the partridge (96). The King replies that he knows that the path 
of love is hard at the beginning, but he will dare all for the sake of 
Padmavati. He asks the parrot for a complete account of every feature 
of his beloved, in the form of a nakh’sikh (97 ). 
CANTO VII. 
A Tale of Beauty (the Nakh’sikh). 
The parrot describes Padmfivatl’s hair (98), and its parting (99), 
her forehead (100), eyebrows (101), eyes (102), eyelashes (103), nose 
(104), lips (105), teeth (106), voice (107), cheeks (108), ears (109), 
neck (110), arms (111), bosom (112), belly (113), back (114), waist 
(115), navel (116) and thighs (117). 
CANTO VIII. 
The King’s Passion. 
The King is thrown into a fever by this description of Padmavati’s 
beauty, and lies senseless (118). His relations and friends come with 
doctors. They diagnose the disease as the same as that from which 
Laksmana suffered when struck by Havana’s arrow, but the magic root 
which alone cures the disease is not available. They recommend that 
it should be searched for regardless of cost (119). The King revives, 
but only raves unintelligently, or cries like a newborn child. He com- 
plains that he has been brought back from the city of immortality t.o 
that of mortality. He asks to die (120). They remonstrate, and say it 
