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Cfl. I. NATHAMUNI. 11
The Sage now called his sou Isvara-Mani and said :
" Son, thou shalt have a son. The naule ' yamunai-t-turaivar ',
thou shalt give him." And he eommaaded his disciples
Ujyakkondai' and K. Appan to communicate in due course to
this vfould-be son, all the knowledge of the Sastras and the
Y6ga he had imparted io them. Leaving his instructions thus,
he resumed his Toga.
Time passed. King Chola had gone out into the country
with his followers on a hunting excursion, and he happened to
pass by Viranarayanapuram on his journey back. Our Sage's
young daughter watched the grand cortege, with bows arrows,
female attendants monkeys and what not. But to her it all
seemed like a vision, which, running up to her father, she
described as if two men with bows, a woman and a monkey'
called at his place and inquired for Nathamuni(gal) and went
their way.
And our Sage at once construed this (in his Divinefilled
imagination) as if Lord Rama himself, with His brother
Lakshmana following Him with bows and arrows (as His bodyguard),
-with Queen Sita between them, condescended to visit
him,—as de.scribed in Ramayana [III. II.] :
" Rama went foremost of the three,
Next Sita followed, fair to see,
And Lakshman with his bow in hand
Walked hindmost of the little band."
Forthwith he started from his Yoga-seat and went in
.search of this Holy Band, and asking those whom he met on the
way, for traces of their journey. They said "
: Go this way, go
this way," evidently fancying that he was in search of the
king and his retinue. He increased his speed and arrived
in the vicinity of Gangaikonda-S-puram ; and asking the
residents there to direct him further on the way where the
Holy Band went, they said they had not seen any. He looked
f arwai'd and far out and sideways, and seeing nothing of what