ndi by name. My father, the ruler of this world, great in
dignity, in a battle in which the immortals were removed to a
distance, was made a guest of the city of Yama by Vishnu, impatient of
his own valour. Me, immersed in an ocean of grief at separation from
him, a certain compassionate perfected devotee told: 'Damsel, a
certain mortal, bearing a divine body, having become thy new husband,
shall rule over the whole of Patala.'"

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Having propitiated with clasped hands, put together in the form of the
red lotus; the mass of rays coloured by the red sandalwood body of the
thousand-eyed elephant of the eastern quarter having a thousand
flames, the witness of things (which ought) to be done and not to be
done, the unique sea-monster leaping over the row of cloud-waves of
the celestial ocean, the graceful actor dancing on the stage of the
golden rock, the one lion the tearer of the scented elephant of
nocturnal darkness, the jewel arranged at the top of the pearl
necklace the canopy of the stars; I went to my own dwelling. And three
days being gone, when the lord of day had a splendour of colour common
to it with the red chalk side of the peak of the western mountain, and
was looking like the orb of one bosom of the Goddess of Twilight,
united with the body of Siva, under the name of atmosphere, for the
disparagement of the daughter of the king of mountains; that king also
having come, stood in humble attitude, having his diadem eclipsed by
the rays from the nails of the feet of this person placed on the
ground; and he was thus addressed:--

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PROPER NAMES, ETC., OCCURRING IN THE TALES.

_Alaka_, a mountain inhabited by Kuvera and the Yakshas.

_Ambalika_, the daughter of Sinhavarma, wife of Mantragupta.

_Amittravarma_, King or Governor of Mahishmati.

_Anantavarma_, King of Vidarba.

_Apaharavarma_, son of Praharavarma, and one of the nine companions of
Rajahansa.

_Apsaras_, heavenly females, nearly corresponding with the houris of
the Mahometans.

_Arthapala_, son of Kamapala, one of the nine companions of Rajahansa.

_Arthapati_, a merchant at Champa, who wished to marry Kulapalika.

_Aryaketu_, a minister and friend of Visruta.

_Asura_, a general term for various supernatural beings not regarded
as gods, but in general hostile to them, nearly the same as the jins
or genii of the "Arabian Nights."