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

26 THE OCEAN OF STORY
from my father, who had retired to a wood of ascetics, and,
thanks to his favour, I possess them of greater power than
any other of our race. I myself saw the wretched Madana-
What happened manchuka, in the palace of Mount Ashadha, in a
to Madana- garden, surrounded by sentinels. I mean your
manchuka
beloved, whom my brother has carried off by
magic, as Ravana carried off the afflicted Sita, the wife of
Ramabhadra. And as the virtuous lady repels his caresses,
he cannot subdue her to his will, for a curse has been laid
upon him that will bring about his death if he uses violence
to any woman.
"
So that wicked brother of mine made use of me to try
to talk her over; and I went to that lady, who could do
nothing but talk of you. And in my conversation with her
that virtuous lady mentioned your name, 1 which was like a
command from the God of Love, and thus my mind then
became fixed upon you alone. And then I remembered an
announcement which Parvati made to me in a dream, much
to the following effect :
' You shall be married to that man,
the mere hearing of whose name overpowers you with love.'
When I had called this to mind, I cheered up Madanaman-
chuka, and came here in her form, and married myself to you
by an artifice. So come, my beloved, I am filled with such
compassion for your wife Madanamanchuka that I will take
you where she is ; for I am the devoted servant of my rival,
even as I am of you, because you love her. For I am so
completely enslaved by love for you that I am rendered quite
unselfish by it."
When Vegavati had said this, she took Naravahanadatta,
and by the might of her science flew up with him into the
sky during the night. And next morning, while she was
slowly travelling through the heaven, the attendants of the
husband and wife were bewildered by their disappearance.
And when the King of Vatsa came to hear of it, he
was immediately, as it were, struck by a thunderbolt, and
1 I read with MSS. Nos. 1882 and 2166 tvadnamnyudlrite ; No. 3003 reads
tvattrasyudirite.
This seems to point to the same reading, which agrees with
si. 74a. It is also found in a MS. lent me by the Principal of the Sanskrit
College.