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from place to place and sat down, the harlot followed him and sat close 
up to his body. 570. She began to scatter white and red sandal-wood over 
his body, hut the king began to call her “ Mother, mother”, and she replied 
“ My heart doth not let me, O king, be called ‘ mother’ by thee.” 571. 
The harlot placed the king’s hand upon her heart, but he called her mother, 
and asked her to suckle him. 572. Once, twice, and thrice the king 
became angered. He even three or four times abused the harlot. 
The burden oe his song. 
573. “ I tell thee the words of thy heart. TJnholy is such love. 
Vainly hast thou lit thy wax candle, and passed a waking night. I am 
blessed by Rama ; and Kubuja was not (loved by Krishna) as Radha was. 
574. A harlot hath no loveliness within her, her beauty is nought but 
copious locks of hair. She is but a gift fit for a barber, like the dhatura* 
flower. 575. I see a harlot’s dealings to be like a ferry-boat. Men pay 
Icdoris at the landing-stage, and pass over. 576. I see thee, O harlot, 
to be like traffic in things of no value. Thy beauty is like that of a dark 
well. Low caste had is and doms as well as brahmans, bathe (to wash 
off the defilement) after touching thee.” 577. For four watches, the 
harlot argued, but still the pious king addressed her as “ Mother.” 578. 
Once, twice, and thrice did the harlot become angry, at last she kicked the 
pious king off the bedstead. 579. She called for her maid-servant, who 
turned the king out with her hand on his neck. 580. The harlot’s dress 
was a linen sari bright as fire ; but the king’s became a knotted rope. 
581. Unsifted rice and brinjals full of seeds she gave him; brinjals 
full of seeds, and he burned them, and made chutney of them. A 
pitiless harlot was she ; she forbade him salt and oil. 582. In the cold 
month of Magh, she gave him an old tattered sari, and a goat hut 
to live in. 583. Bhangi ropes she gave him, and a hhangi stick, and 
two water-jars. Twelve loads of water did he measure out the livelong 
day. 584. If one amongst the twelve was not supplied, in payment for 
it seven men would beat him. 585. He took hhangi ropes and a hliangi 
stick and two vessels of water; and he went to fill them at the Karatoya 
river. 586. One, two, or three loads he filled. - The whole day the 
Maharaja was carrying the twelve loads. 587. Seven vile men seized 
the king and laid him on his back and then the harlot would put on her feet 
golden pattens. 588. Hira, the harlot, after bathing would laugh glee¬ 
fully, and proudly stand upon the king’s chest. 589. After bathing her 
body, she shone with excessive brilliancy, and she took off her wet clothes, 
and put on a dry linen sari. 590. The wet clothes she would wring 
out over the king’s face. At midday the king would cover his face and 
* Fair to look upon, but has no scent. 
