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THE DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF VATSA 93
of his father, the King of Vatsa, he quickly summoned
Devamaya, the Vidyadhara prince, and said to him in a voice
"
half-choked with a weight of tears : My father is returning
to his own capital with my mothers, and his ministers, and
the rest of his train, so send on in front of him a full
thousand bhdras * of gold and jewels, and employ a thousand
Vidyadhara serfs to carry it."
When Devamaya had received this order, given in the
kind tones of his master, he bowed and
"
said : Bestower
of honour, I will go in person with my attendants to
Kausambi to perform this duty." Then the emperor sent
Vayupatha and Devamaya to attend on their journey his
father and his followers, whom he honoured with presents of
raiment and ornaments. Then the King of Vatsa and his
suite mounted a heavenly chariot, and he went to his own
city, after making his son, who followed him a long way,
turn back. And Queen Vasavadatta, whose longing regret
rose at that moment with hundredfold force, turned back
her dutiful son with tears, and, looking back at him, with
difficulty tore herself away. And Naravahanadatta, accompanied
by his ministers, Gomukha and the rest, who had
grown up with him from his youth, and with hosts of Vidyadhara
kings, with his wives, and with Madanamanchuka
at his side, in the perpetual enjoyment of heavenly pleasures
was ever free from satiety. 2
1 A bhdra is 20 tulds.
2 In the above chapter we have seen how, after the defeat of Mandaradeva,
Naravahanadatta proceeds with his coronation ceremony. As in the longest
tale in the Nights, " King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and his Sons "
(see Burton,
vol. iii, p. 112), all the chief characters of the tale assemble, and, with a final
blaze of glory, the curtain falls. Surely this should be the end of the whole
work. The great object of the hero has been achieved, all the seemingly
unsurmountable obstacles have been overcome, every enemy has been conquered,
and every maiden has been won. Yet, to our great astonishment, we
find three more complete Books before us. As we shall see in the " Terminal
Essay," the chief value of the Books is to clear up some of the unsolved
mysteries of order and arrangement which have presented themselves in
previous Books. n.m.p.