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CHAPTER CXVII
170b. Muktdphalaketu and Padmavati
the meanwhile that king of the Gandharvas, Padma-
gekhara, re-entered his city, celebrating a splendid triumph;
and hearing from his wife that his daughter Padmavati
had performed asceticism in the temple of Gauri, to procure
for him victory, he summoned her. And when his daughter
came, emaciated with asceticism and separation from her
lover, and fell at his feet, he gave her his blessing, and said
to her :
" Dear girl, for my sake you have endured great
hardship in the form of penance, so obtain quickly for a
husband the noble Muktaphalaketu, the son of the king of
the Vidyadharas, the slayer of Vidyuddhvaja, the victorious
protector of the world, who has been appointed to marry you
by Siva himself."
When her father said this to her, she remained with face
fixed on the ground, and then her mother, Kuvalayavali,
"
said to him : How, my husband, was so terrible an Asura,
that filled the three worlds with consternation, slain by that
prince in fight ? " When the king heard that, he described
to her the valour of that prince, and the battle between the
gods and Asuras. Then Padmavati' s companion,
whose name
was Manoharika, described the easy manner in which he slew
the two Rakshasis. Then the king and queen, finding out
that he and their daughter had met and fallen in love, were
"
pleased, and said : What could those Rakshasis do against
one who swallowed the whole army of the Asuras, as Agastya
swallowed the sea ? " l Then the fire of Padmavati's love
blazed up more violently, being fanned by this description of
her lover's surpassing courage as by a breeze.
Then the princess left her parents' presence and immediately
ascended, in eager longing, a jewelled terrace in the
women's apartments, which had pillars of precious stone
1 See Vol. VI, pp. 43H1 , 44w. n.m.p.
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