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

130 THE OCEAN OF STORY
In the meanwhile that old Brahman took with him those
sons of Taravaloka, whom he had received as a Brahman's
fee, and, losing his way, arrived, as fate would have it, at the
city of that King Chandravaloka, and proceeded to sell those
princes in the market. Then the citizens recognised those
two boys, and went and informed King Chandravaloka, and
took them, with the Brahman, into his presence. The king,
when he saw his grandsons, shed tears, and after he had
questioned the Brahman, and had heard the state of the case
from him, he was for a long time divided between joy and
grief. Then, perceiving the exceeding virtue of his son, he
at once ceased to care about a kingdom, though his subjects
entreated him to remain, but with his wealth he bought
those two grandsons from the Brahman, and taking them
with him went with his retinue to the hermitage of his son,
Taravaloka.
There he saw him, with matted hair, wearing a dress of
bark, looking like a great tree, the advantages of which are
enjoyed by birds coming from every quarter,
for he in like
manner had bestowed all he had upon expectant Brahmans. 1
That son ran towards him, while still a long way off, and fell
at his feet, and his father bedewed him with tears, and took
him up on his lap; and thus gave him a foretaste of his
ascent of the throne, as emperor over the Vidyadharas, after
a solemn sprinkling with water.
Then the king gave back to Taravaloka his sons, Rama
and Lakshmana, saying that he had purchased them; and,
while they were relating to one another their adventures, an
elephant with four tusks and the goddess Lakshmi descended
from heaven. And when the chiefs of the Vidyadharas
had also descended, Lakshmi, lotus in hand, said to that
"
Taravaloka : Mount this elephant, and come to the country
of the Vidyadharas, and there enjoy the imperial dignity 2
earned by your great generosity."
When Lakshmi said this, Taravaloka, after bowing at the
1 The pun is intelligible enough :
dvija means " Brahman " and also
"bird"; asagata means "coming from every quarter" and "coming in hope
to get something."
2 Tat should not be separated from the next word.