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resolved before doing so to attend the festival of Tryambaka in Sravasti. 
On the previous evening she had, when passing along, heard Pramati’s 
prayer, and, to protect him from the inclemency of the night, until she re¬ 
turned from the festival, she had taken him away in sleep to the slumber¬ 
ing Navamalika, daughter of Dharma Varddhana, king of Sravasti. On 
returning from the festal ceremonies, where her spirit was wholly puri¬ 
fied from the curse, she had recognized him as her own son and had seen 
how he, as well as the maiden, had been abashed when they found 
themselves lying side by side. She had again caused him to sink 
into real sleep and brought him back to this spot, and was compelled, 
while hastening to his father, to leave him for the present to his own 
devices and to fate. She vanishes after an affectionate farewell. But 
Pramati, who is overcome with love, wends his way towards Sravasti. 
On his way he wins, as a spectator at a cock-fight, the friendship of an 
old Brahman, who lodges him for the nig-ht. On the next morning 
Pramati arrives at Sravasti, and, being tired with walking, he lays him¬ 
self down to rest in the shade of the pleasure-garden outside the city. 
Here a waiting woman comes up to him with a picture in her hand, which 
she compares with him. Navamalika has painted the picture of the 
youth whom she had seen in her dream and sent out her waiting- 
woman to find the original. Pramati proves himself to be the person 
wanted by drawing the picture of the princess and narrating the occur¬ 
rence of the night. He sends the woman back with the message that 
he would soon come to the princess, and he now turns to the old Brah¬ 
man with the plan he had laid to effect this. The Brahman brings 
him dressed up as his daughter to the king, and asks him to keep her 
saying he was going to fetch his son-in-law, and he knew no other way 
to keep the maiden safe as she was full grown, especially as her mother 
was dead. The king accepts the charge and makes the maiden over 
to his daughter as a playmate. After a month, when the ladies of the 
seraglio make a bathing excursion, Pramati dives and passes to an appointed 
spot on the other side of the river, where the old man is waiting for 
him with male attire. The female guise is now discarded and the old 
Brahman goes to the king with Pramati as his intended son-in-law to 
demand his daughter. The harem meanwhile is in great commotion 
on account of her being drowned. The princess is beside herself and 
the king is in a most unhappy fix before the old man, who is about to 
burn himself in front of the king’s palace, when the king succeeds in 
overcoming his resolution by giving him his own daughter in lieu of the 
lost maiden in marriage to the intended son-in-law, and he also hands 
over the kingdom to the young adventurer. Thus Pramati gains all 
his desires. 
