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VAYUPATHA'S INVITATION 89
queens and his ministers too, addressing
to them." When Vayupatha heard this, he said :
the same invitation
"
I will do
so," and made for Kausambi through the air.
And he reached that city in a moment, beheld with fear
and astonishment by the citizens, as he was encircled by
seventy million Vidyadharas. And he had an interview with
Udayana, King of Vatsa, with his ministers and wives, and
the king received him with appropriate courtesy. And the
Vidyadhara prince sat down and asked the king about his
health, and said to him, while all present looked at him with
curiosity :
" Your son, Naravahanadatta, having propitiated Siva, and
beheld him face to face, and having obtained from him sciences
difficult for enemies to conquer, has slain Manasavega and
Gaurlmunda in the southern division of the Vidyadhara
territory, and conquered Mandaradeva who was lord in
the northern division, and has obtained '
the high dignity
of emperor over all the kings of the Vidyadharas in both
divisions, who acknowledge his authority ;
and has now gone
through his solemn coronation on the Rishabha mountain,
and is thinking, King, with eager yearning of you and your
queens and ministers. And I have been sent by him, so
come at once ; for fortunate are those who live to see their
offspring elevate their race."
When the King of Vatsa heard Vayupatha say this, being
full of longing for his son, he seemed like a peacock that
rejoices when it hears the roaring of the rain-clouds. So he
accepted Vayupatha's invitation, and immediately mounted
a palankeen with him, and by the might of his sciences
travelled through the air, accompanied by his wives and
ministers, and reached that great heavenly mountain called
Rishabha. And there he saw his son on a heavenly throne,
in the midst of the Vidyadhara kings, accompanied by
many wives; resembling the moon reclining on the top of
the eastern mountain, surrounded by the planetary host, and
attended by a company of many stars. To the king the sight
of his son in all his splendour was a shower of nectar, and
asadya ;
1 Two of the India Office MSS. and the Sanskrit College MS. read
the line appears to be omitted in the third.