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Then that Kanha Vasudeva returned from the oratory and came to the place where Queen Devai was. He held the feet of Queen Devai and said “There will be to me, mother, a younger brother." Having so done, he comforted Queen · Devai by pleasing [etc.] expressions. Having comforted her, he returned to the direction from which he came.
Then Queen Devas, some other time, in the bed of that sort [...until] having seen the lion in a dream woke up (until]... readers of dreams... with a glad heart carried a child in the womb. Then that Queen Devaī after nine months gave birth to a boy,-having the beauty of the rising sun, of the tender Parijataka flower, of lac-pigment, of a red Bandhujivaka Aower and of a Jasumina flower-quite tender [ until] of good shapeliness, like an elephant's palate. The birth is to be narrated in the same way as that of Meha. [until] “ For that this our child is like the elephant's palate, therefore let Gayasukumāla be the name of this our child.” So the father and mother give him the name * Gayasukumāla ,' The rest as with Meha (until] became fit for worldly enjoyment.
