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THE SANDALWOOD-TREE 69
ladders and adored it. The tree then said to him with bodi-
less voice :
" Emperor, thou hast won me, the sandalwood-
tree, and when thou thinkest on me I will appear to thee, so
leave this place at present, and go to Govindakuta ; thus
thou wilt win the other jewels also ; and then thou wilt easily
conquer Mandaradeva." On hearing this, Naravahanadatta,
the mighty sovereign of the Vidyadharas, said : "I will do
so." And, being now completely successful, he worshipped
that heavenly tree, 1 and went delighted through the air to
his own camp.
There he spent that night ;
and the next morning in the
hall of audience he related at full length, in the presence of all,
his night's adventure by which he had won the sandalwoodtree.
And when they heard it, his wives, and the ministers
who had grown up with him from infancy, and those
Vidyadharas who were devoted to him namely, Vayupatha
and the other chiefs, with their forces and the Gandharvas,
headed by Chitrangada, were delighted at this sudden attainment
of great success, and praised his heroism, remarkable
for its uninterrupted flow of courage, enterprise, and firmness.
And after deliberating with them, the king, determined to
overthrow the pride of Mandaradeva, set out in a heavenly
chariot for the mountain of Govindakuta, in order to obtain
the other jewels spoken of by the sandalwood-tree.
1 x See Vol. II, pp. 96, 96n , 97. Cf. also the story of Aschenkatze, in the
Pentamerone of Basile (Burton, vol. i, pp. 59, 6l) ; the Dummedha Jdtaka,
Cambridge Edition, No. 50, vol. i, p. 126 et seq; Preller, Romische Mythologie,
p. 96; Kuhn, Sagen aus Westfalen, vol. i, pp. 241, 242, 244, 245; Ovid's
Metamorphoses, viii, 722-724 and 743 et seq; and Ralston's Tibetan Tales,
Introduction, p. lii.