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let the elephant take me away". Hearing that, the king caught hold of a tree and jumping off, came back instantly to the city with anxiety. In the mean while the irresistible elephant took her away further. The elephant, as it went on, came to a lake where it entered into deep water. Then that wife of the king,l'esembling a heavenly damsel, jumped in to the water with a trick.
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14. Bearing deep sorrow in her heart, the highly virtuous laily, leaving the lake, went into the forest. There she sair a garlen with (lecaying trees, decr-less and sapless like salvation devoid of passion and feeling. There, as she rested under a trec, the pleasure-garilen blossomed up and became fruitful. Then some one reported the wonderful happening to the gardener inclarge, in Dantipur " Listen, oh gardener, to my words; an unprecedented brilliance is visible to-day in the forest. The Bakula the Campaka and the mangoes have blossoineil and all creeper-bowers have become green. Even the good trees that bear fruit in different seasons are bending with their crop of fruits. Swarms of bees, greedy of the fragrance, are humming, as if the forest-beauty is enchanting pure notes. Has spring arrived in that forest so that it appears so beautiful to my mind” ? Fearing that, the forest-guard went there in a moment there the spring had manifested itsel! Then, seeing that forest so lovely, the man was thrilled with joy for a moment and then he argued in his mind “Surely this has blossomed through no good luck of ours."
15. The forest-guard wandered through the forest; he looked for the cause of the affluence of the forest. Then wipil, misel with fragrance, blew as if the richness of the forest was declaring its nature. The guard went by the smell, by the way the wind was coming. He saw the heavenly damsel under the tree as if the forest-deity was shining forth in all her grace. He then thinks" She is not an ordinary woman; of divine bodly, she is extraordinary in appearance.” He then called her out addressing her as his daughter and raised her up by catching hold of the palm of her hand, "Why are you waiting here, sour at heart, oh daughter; come quick to my home.” Hearing his words, delightful to the ears, the lady walked up to his house. While she lived in the gardener's house, Kusumadattā thought in her heart, " This woman, geen by him there, is extra-ordinary. Is she a Kinnarī or a Vidyādhari ( classes of demigods )? She is lovely to the eyes, the best of women, air coloured like Campaka and brimmed with virtutes.
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