________________ 12 Notes [ St. 11 Far flung herself into the sacrificial fire, at which TFT flung the Fire missile and dispersed the people. Full af ardent love for JAT, TFT could not live without her. With nactar he revived Jai and gave half of his body to her. Since then, it came to be called अर्धनारी-नटेश्वर. The * story of रमा and arata can thus be sketched-There was once a king named area in the city of Purimatala. He once saw the beautiful daughter named Lakshmi of Seth Kamal and fell at once in love with her. He married her and became so much enamoured of her that he became careless about his kingdom, and the expostulations of his prime minister even were of no avail. After some time Lakshmi died. At the news the king became unconscious. People asked the king to cremate her. The king said that she was not dead but only quiet and motionless in anger. All the devices of the minister, such as messengers or letters being reported to the king as sent from heaven by the queen, failed to bring the king round to his routine life. The minister at last dressed a courtezan in the gorgeous dress which the king had handed over to a merchant for being taken to Heaven for Lakshmi, and said that Lakshmi had come down to
