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Dadhiparņa thought: 'Davadantí is å lady that I should love; but she lives in a very distant country. The fifth day is to-morrow. I cannot go there in the time. What am I to do?' So Dadhiparna was tortured by anxiety, like a fish in a small piece of water. The hunchback said to himself: 'Davadantí is exceedingly chaste, she will never desire a second husband ; besides, if she were to have a fancy that way, who would take her while I am alive? So I will take Dadhiparņa to that svayamvara in six watches ; for I shall go there with him as being attached to his person.' Then the hunchback said to Dadhiparņa: 'Why are you so afflicted ? Tell me the cause; for one cannot cure a patient that does not tell his disease. The king said: Hunchback, Nala has made his auspicious entry into the city of the gods, and Davadantí will make her svayamvara a second time to-morrow morning. I long to obtain Davadantí; but Vidarbha is far off, and there is an interval of six watches only. The messenger has taken many days to come ; how, then, can I go there in so short a time? Thinking over this, I can obtain no peace of mind.' The hunchback said : 'Do not be unhappy, king; give me a chariot with thoroughbred horses, and I will take you to the city of Kundina by to-morrow morning. The king said to himself: This is not an ordinary man; this is some Vidyádhara or some god.' So he gave him & chariot with thoroughbred horses. Then Nala made ready the chariot, and said to Dadhiparņa :
King, mount the chariot.' Then the king, his betel-boxbearer, his umbrella-bearer, and his two chowrie-bearers, five men in all, ascended that chariot, and the hunchback was the sixth. He fastened up that vilva-fruit and that casket in his clothes on his loins; he invoked the gods and the spiritual teachers, and urged on the horses. Then the four-horsed chariot, being driven on by Nala, who knew the dispositions of horses, began to move quickly. Thereupon the garment of Dadhiparņa, being blown away by the wind raised by the motion of the chariot, fell on the ground. Dadhiparna told the hunchback. The hunchback laughed, and said : 'King, where is your garment? The chariot
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