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

192 THE OCEAN OF STORY
deeply in love with him, and though he was young, and she
was fair enough to shake with love the saintly minds of
anchorites, still, in virtue of the boon he had craved from the
hermit, he was no whit disturbed in mind. But Merudhvaja,
finding that his elder son was determined not to take a wife,
while Malayadhvaja was desperately in love, and that on the
other hand that great Asura was averse to giving him his
daughters, remained with his mind bewildered as to how to
devise an expedient.