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G. A. Grierson — Analysis of the Padumawati. 
mana, Drona and Gaggeya, 1 Nakula and Saliadeva, Yudliisthira and 
Duryodhana, Bhoja and Nala., Raghava and Paraiju Rama, Bharata 
and Qatrughna, opponents of Kairica and Canura, Pradyumua and 
Aniruddha. Help me as Bhlma helped the Panda vas ’ (658). They 
take the betel, and tell Padmavati to call her litter and return home ; 
she should not walk. She revives, and returns joyfully to her palace 
iu a way consonant with her dignity (659). 
CANTO XLII. 
Tiie Departure of Gora and Badal. 
Ya^oda, the mother of Badal, comes and clasps his feet; saying, 
‘ Thou art but a child, what knowest thou of battle ? Mighty kings who 
opposed the Emperor could not protect Hammira.’ Description of the 
Emperor’s power. 1 Where great kings crash to ruin, what hast thou to 
do ? To-day is the day for receiving thy bride home from her father’s 
house. Remain at home and be happy’ (660). Badal, — ‘Mother, 
think not of me as a green boy. I am Badal, the lion of battle. When 
a lion heareth a herd of elephants his soul is mightily moved, and his 
lion-racehood 2 cannot be hidden. I am ready to fight the Emperor alone. 
I would stand before a mad elephant unmoved, and tear its trunk and 
out-root its tusks. I will plant myself in the battle-field firm as Aqgada. 
Consider me not as a child. Where’er the king is imprisoned, there will 
I enter and release him, even if it be hell ’ (661). As Badal equips 
himself for battle, the marriage procession of Badal’s bride approaches. 
The bride appears, moonfaced, and brave in all her finery. Her beauty. 
She laments when she hears of her husband’s departure ; ‘ As I arrive 
at my husband’s gate, he departeth to a distant land.’ Her bridesmaids 
try in vain to console her (662). She casts aside her veil, and stands 
humbly at the door. She casts a piercing glance at Badal and gathers 
up her raiment, but her husband looks another way and hardens his 
heart. Then she smiles and looks towards him, but he turns his back 
to her. Turning his face away he is wroth, ‘ I will not walk towards the 
woman’s face.’ The bride wonders at his ill-omened conduct. She is too 
modest to address him (663). Then she considers, ‘ I have not gained 
my love by my modesty, let me cast it aside and address him ? ’ She 
smiles and catches his waist-band, saying, 1 A husband should not refuse 
his wife’s request. To-day I am come for the first time from my father’s 
house, and thou, my love, art going to the battle. 1 have loft my home 
but to meet thee ; what leaving home is that, when my lord leaves me ? 
1 The grandfather of Bhlsma. 
2 Riij’puts call themselves Simha, lion. 
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