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

104 THE OCEAN OF STORY
In the midst of that grove of ascetics he beheld his uncle,
surrounded by hermits, with long matted locks, clothed in
the bark of a tree, looking like an incarnation of patience.
And Gopalaka, when he saw his sister's son approach, rose
up and embraced him, and pressed him to his bosom with
tearful eyes. Then they, both of them, lamented their lost
dear ones with renewed : grief whom will not the fire of grief
torture, when fanned by the blast of a meeting with relations?
When even the animals there were pained to see their grief,
Kasyapa and the other hermits came up and consoled those
two. Then that day came to an end, and next morning the
emperor entreated Gopalaka to come to dwell in his kingdom.
do you not
But Gopalaka said to him :
" What, my child ;
suppose that I have all the happiness I desire by thus seeing
you ? If you love me, remain here in this hermitage, during
this rainy season, which has arrived."
When Naravahanadatta had been thus entreated by his
uncle, he remained in the hermitage of Kasyapa on the Black
Mountain, with his attendants, for the term mentioned.