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Nagamati hears of the king’s approach. Her happiness. She 
adorns herself. Her companions ask her -why she is so happy (458). 
She explains. A herald comes and proclaims the arrival of the King 
(459). The general rejoicings in the city. Ratna’s brothers ride out 
to meet him (460). Music, liatna arrives and greets his mother. The 
temples are adorned. Padnnivati’s litter arrives. Nagamati’s jealousy; 
so Padmavati is taken to a separate palace. The news about Padmavati 
spreads abroad (461). Ratna mounts the throne. Charity distributed. 
He embraces his brothers and relations, and makes them presents. 
Music. Holy men of all sects assemble (262). 
At nightfall Ratna visits Nagamati ; filled with jealousy of Padma- 
vati, she sits with her face turned away from him. She reproaches 
him (463). He comforts her. Says he still loves her. He embraces 
her (464). She is consoled; laughs, and asks what kind of women he 
met in his travels. 1 Is Padmavati as beautiful as I am ? Bees wander 
from flower to flower.’ He explains that he cannot compare the two. 
There he loves one, here he loves another (465). Night passes in 
conversation. In the morning he goes to Padmavati. She reproaches 
him for deserting her for Nagamati (466). He says he loves her alone. 
She tells him he should not go to Nagamati (467). 
CANTO XXX. 
The kival Queens. 
The beauty of Nagamati’s garden. She goes into it with her com- 
panions (468). Padmavati is told of this, ‘ Nagamati is in the garden 
and the king is sporting with her and her companions ’ (469). Padma- 
vati cannot contain her wrath. She hastens to the garden with her 
companions. She meets her co-wife, they smile and sit down together 
on the same seat, with sweet words, but hatred in their hearts. 
Padmavati remarks on the beauty of the garden, and adds that it is 
not right that the Sugadhraw flower should be in the same garden with 
the jasmine and the Nagesar. Who cares for Jamun fruit if the Mango 
grows with it in the same garden (470) ? Nagamati replies, ‘ That fruit 
is the best which the bee loveth. The Jamun, the Kasturi, and the Coa 
fruits are (it is true) all black, (but still they are the best). The mango 
is set on high but it weepeth in its heart out of jealousy of them, for 
the bee loves them and not the mango. So doth the bee love the black 
Jamun that he hath planted it in the midst of his garden’ (471). 
Padmavati replies that the shrubs in her garden may be thorny, but 
