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scribe him to her, and advise her to look at him, or she -will miss a 
sight she will not have a chance of seeing- again (608). She goes to 
the lattice and looks ont, and the Emperor sees her reflection in the 
mirror. He who has been desiring a castle ( ruhh ) in the game of 
chess, is checkmated when he sees Padmavatl’s face (ruhh). He falls 
into a stupor. The king, not knowing the reason, expresses concern. 
Raghava says he is oidy overcome by the betel nut, 1 and has him put to 
bed. Night passes. The Emperor comes to himself in the morning 
(609). Padmavati has disappeared, and the Emperor rises, looking like 
a Yogi. Raghava goes to him, saying, — ‘ Hath the lotus become poison, 
when it saw the sun ? Thou art all-powerful. Why art thou so de- 
straught?’ (610). Emperor, — ‘I have seen a wondrous vision. A 
curtain which had been before my eyes was raised. I saw in my mind 
a lake, in which water had been, and was no longer. Heaven came 
down and covered the earth. It came upon the earth but I could not 
grasp it. Again I saw in it a lofty temple. It was within reach of my 
hand but I could not touch it. In it, I saw, in my mind, an image, but 
it appeared without body and without life. It was bright as the full- 
moon, but, like the philosopher’s stone, it showed itself and disappeared. 
Now my life is where that full moon is. How can the sun find the new 
moon? The lotus bloomed at night, like a flash of lightning (611). 
That beauteous form hath entered into my soul and dragged out my 
life. I saw a lion’s waist, the might .of an elephant, snakes for the 
elephant goad, and a peacock for its rider. Over it was a lotus bloom- 
ing, round which bees hovered and drank the odour. Two fluttering 
Klianjan birds, between which sat a parrot, while a two-days-old moon 
rose with a bow in its hand. A deer appeared and then became 
invisible. The moon became a snake, and the sun a lamp. I saw it 
very high, and then start away. Mine eyes followed it, but I could not 
reach it. While I gazed at it, it faded away. It went, as I gazed and 
meditated on it ’ (612). Raghava explains the vision. ‘ The wondrous 
form which thou didst see was certainly Padmavati. She hath a little 
waist like a tiger’s, and her gait is that of an elephant. Her neck is 
graceful as a peacock’s, and her hair (brilliant as the lamp of the sun) 
resembleth black curling snakes. Her face was the lotus, exhaling 
gentle odour to the Zephyr, the fluttering Tchanjans were her eyes, and 
the parrot her nose. The bow is her eyebrows, and the two-day moon 
her brow. She is that deer which appeared and became invisible, whose 
locks are like black snakes, and whose soul is a lamp. Thou did’st see 
her reflection in the mirror, and therefore the image which thou did’st 
1 The Area nut eaten with betel sometimes causes faintness. The idiom used 
for it is sopari lag gat hai. 
