The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's ...

90 THE OCEAN OF STORY
when he was bedewed with it his heart swelled with joy, and
he closely resembled the sea when the moon rises.
Naravahanadatta, for his part, beholding that father of
his after a long separation, rose up hurriedly and eager, and
went to meet him with his train. And then his father embraced
him, and folded him to his bosom, and he went
being bathed in a flood of
through a second sprinkling, 1
his father's tears of joy. And Queen Vasavadatta long
embraced her son, and bathed him with the milk that flowed
from her breasts at beholding him, so that he remembered
his childhood. And Padmavati, and Yaugandharayana, and
the rest of his father's ministers, and his uncle Gopalaka,
beholding him after a long interval, drank in with thirsty
eyes his ambrosial frame, like partridges ; while the
king treated them with the honour which they deserved.
And Kalingasena, beholding her son-in-law, and also her
daughter, felt as if the whole world was too narrow for her,
much less could her own limbs contain her swelling heart.
And Yaugandharayana and the other ministers, beholding
their sons, Harisikha and the others, on whom celestial
powers had been bestowed by the favour of their sovereign,
2
congratulated them.
And Queen Madanamanchuka. wearing heavenly orna-
ments, with Ratnaprabha, Alankaravati, Lalitalochana,
Karpurika, Saktiyasas and Bhaglrathayasas, and the sister
of Ruchiradeva, who bore a heavenly form, and Vegavati,
and Ajinavati with Gandharvadatta, and Prabhavati and
Atmanika and Vayuvegayasas, and her four beautiful friends,
headed by Kalika, and those five other heavenly nymphs, of
whom Mandaradevi was the chief all these wives of the
Emperor Naravahanadatta bowed before the feet of their
father-in-law the King of Vatsa, and also of Vasavadatta
and Padmavati, and they in their delight loaded them with
blessings, as was fitting.
And when the King of Vatsa and his wives had occupied
1 An allusion to the sprinkling at his coronation. The king " put him on
his lap."
2 I read drisktva prabhuprasadaptadivyatvan, which I find in two of the
India Office MSS. No. 3003 has prata for prabhu.