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Story of the Cakravartin Sanatkumāra
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teen great dreams.47 He was brought up in the company of a boy named Mahendrasinha, with whom he played in the sand. 48 After he had grown to manhood, the prince, one spring day, mounted a noble horse, named Abdhikallola, 49 which flew up in the air. The king went out to search for his son, but did not find him. Then Mahendrasinha told the king to desist from the search, and himself started to look for his friend. After roaming in a great forest during a year, he heard one day the sound of cranes, and, going forward, perceived Sanatkumāra recreating in the company of ladies on the shore of a lake. At the same time a bard was singing a verse in glowing praise of the prince. Mahendrasinha went to meet him, and there was great joy on both sides. Sanatkumāra asked his friend how he had come there; inquired after his parents; and, finally, Mahendrasinha asked to be told the prince's adventures (1039).
Prince Sanatkumāra said that he did not think it becoming in him to narrate his own exploits. So he called his Vidyādharī wife Bakulamatī, and, alleging that he was overcome by sleep, requested her to enlighten his friend. She told how the horse, which had carried off Sanatkumāra, had entered a great forest, had galloped unchecked, until, on the third day, it fell down exhausted with hunger and thirst. The prince wandered about in search of water, until he fell senseless under a saptachada tree. A Yakşa sprinkled him with water from lake Mānasa, and, at his request, took him to that lake to bathe and drink. While siting on the shore there, he was seen
"? See additional note 10, on p. 189.
** pärisukrīditah: our 'making mud pies together,' standard expression for boy friends; see the author in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. lii, p. 616, note 3.
* In the Prakrit version, p. 20, 1. 20, the name of this horse is Jalahi. kallola.
