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NEWS OF THE BELOVED 171
my beloved, and where she tore out my heart with the arrows
of her sidelong glances, and carried it away. There Siva, who
is united with the daughter of the king of the mountains,
will, when propitiated with penance, show me how to become
united with my beloved."
When the prince had said this he was preparing to rise
up, and then Manoharika, being much pleased, showed her-
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self ; and Samyataka, delighted, said to that : prince My
friend, you are in luck ; your desire is ! accomplished Look !
Here is that beloved's female attendant come to you. I beheld
her at the side of the princess in the hermitage of the
goddess Ambika." Then the prince, beholding the friend of
his beloved, was in a strange state a state full of the burst-
ing forth of joy, astonishment and longing. And when she
came near him, a rain of nectar to his eyes, he made her sit
by his side, and asked her about the health of his beloved.
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Then she gave him this answer : No doubt my friend
but at
will be well enough when you become her husband ;
present she is afflicted. For ever since she saw you, and you
robbed her of her heart, she has been despondent, and neither
hears nor sees. The maiden has left off her necklace and
wears a chain of lotus fibres, and has abandoned her couch
and rolls on a bed of lotus leaves. Best of conquerors, I tell
you, her limbs, now white with the sandalwood juice which
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is drying up with their heat, seem laughingly to : say That
very maiden, who formerly was too bashful to endure the
mention of a lover, 2
is now reduced to this sad condition
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by being separated from her dear one. And she sends you
this message." Having said so much, Manoharika recited
the two verses which Padmavati had put into her mouth.
When Muktaphalaketu heard all that, his pain departed,
and he joyfully welcomed Manoharika, and said to her :
" This my mind has been irrigated by your speech as by
nectar, and is refreshed ; and I have recovered my spirits
and got rid of my languor : my
conceit.
good
deeds in a former life
1 By the canons of Hindu rhetoric a smile is white. Hence this frigid
2 I read na for in. Two out of the three India Office MSS. and the
Sanskrit College MS. give na.