________________ Translation 77 gave orders for putting the sails on clit, caused them to be started); but even though oblations were given, and the drums were beaten with a loud poise, the ships did not move, in spite of the sailors' trying to do so. (388, 389) Then on account of that anxiety, Dhavalahad his face turned black; and ( therefore ), having got down, he went into the city and. asked a woman ( the reason of the ship's not moving). (390) She replied: " These ships are stopped by a god; ( and ) they will move ( only ) when a man possessed of thirty-two auspicious marks on the body is given in oblation." (391) Then Dhavala, having pleased the king with presents of very costly things, requested: him. ( thus ): "Oh, lord ! give me one man for offering oblation." (392) The king said : "Take, as you please, any man who might be a foreigner and helpless ( i.e. without a guardian etc. ), but you should not take any other person." (393) Then when the soldiers of Dhavala began to make a search for such a man, they came to. know the prince Siripala to be a foreigner. (394)
