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188 SAMPATKUMAttA INSTALLED. CH. XXIX.
pondered how to trace it. He was given a dream in which
Eamapriya appeared and said :— " I am with the daughter of
the king. She has made a plaything of mo. To her dallyings
and caresses, I am a living per.son. Come thei-e and find
me." RAm&nnj.i awoke and reported to the king that the idol
he sought was with the Sult^ni. The king's curiosity was
roused at the revelations, a foreign SanyS,sin of a different
persuasion was making to him; and not only curiosity but respect
and adoration for the holy saint. The King took the Sanyiisin
Ramftnuja into the seraglio, where no other man dared enter ;
and wonderful f o relate, R^mapriya was there found, fondled by
grace of an incarnated deity, embellished accoi-ding to all the
gifts and honors, sent him back from the scene of his holy
mission.
The daughter Snltfi,ni would not bear the separation from
the, to her, living doll. She wanted it back for herself. But
the father said :
" It is their god, daughter ; how can we claim
Him ? " " Then," cried the Sultani piteously to her father
the Sultftni, his daughter, to whom He played the husband.
Ramtouja, entering, called Him by His name, and lo, the Image
jumped down from the couch on which the Sultani had placed
Him, and walked to where Rftm&nuja Stood, in all the glory and
ideals of taste natural to Aryan imagination. RamS