The Bengali Poem, Candi. 
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And, the new kinsman welcoming, he gives him presents manifold, 
Elephants, horses, litters, cars, silver, and costly robes, and gold. 
Again the hurst of music sounds, the Brahmans bind and loose them both; 
Then on Arundhati* * * § they gaze, type of unwavering wedded troth; 
Their parched-rice offerings next they pay to the star RohinI and Som f ; 
Last to the sacred fire they how, the guardian deity of home. 
Then they are brought within the house, and there the husband and 
the wife 
Together eat the sugar-milk, the handsel-meal of married life.J 
Ram’s the first sound that wakes the new-born day; 
The bridegroom rose his daily rites to pay; 
The laughing relatives around him close, 
And claim th’ accustomed largess as he goes; 
Then crowned with wreaths they seat the happy pair, 
And all the maidens bring their presents there. 
Some satins, silks, or sandal’s richest smells, 
Some fill the hetel-box with cowrie-shells, 
And gems for th’ husband, and—auspicious sight!— 
Rare shells with convolutions to the right! 
Loudly the drums and’conchs and tahours bray 
To speed the parting bridegroom on his way ; 
The mother, as to take his leave he stands, 
Puts the ‘ five jewels ’ § gently in his hands. 
Prostrate before his fath’r-in-law he hows, 
Then mounts the palanquin and leaves the house. 
After spending some days at home in making festivities with his 
relations and friends, Dhanapati one day went to the Raja’s court to pay 
his respects. He finds that the Raja has lately received from a fowler two 
* A star in the Great Bear, also the wife of the seven rshis. 
f The moon. 
f The first, and also the last, meal which the husband and wife eat together. 
§ These are the five precious things—gold, silver, pearls, crystal, and copper. See 
Kathas. S., ch. 77. 
