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[8. BHAVA. had been caused by some trifling fault ; as had been the case with herself. This remark induced her to tell her own history.
History of the nun súsam gata. 671, 8-686, 9.
I was, she said, the wife of Narasundara, king of Kosala. Once my husband took a ride; the horse ran away with him and set him down in a great forest. In a grove he discovered a woman, who told him that she was the yaksini Manohară and had been, without cause, deserted by her husband; she made proposals to my busband, which he firmly rejected, and then threatened to kill him; but he drove her away and she became invisible. He had not gone far, when a golden tree fell down near him; looking upwards he descried her in the sky reviling bim; and at last she disappeared. He soon was joined by his soldiers who had followed the track of his horse, and returned to the town. I suspected that he had had an adventure and did not leave off questioning him till he told me all about Manohara. * If I get hold of her,' he concluded, 'I shall treat her so badly, that she will give up her infatuation.' 674,6. Once going to the bedroom I saw my husband lying on the bed together with a woman exactly my counterpart. I withdrew in distraction but was perceived by my husband, who pursued me and got hold of my hair ; 'look,' he said to that woman, it is as you have fortold mo; the sorceress has assumed your form.' She replied, “I won't look at her ; drive the bad person from your country." Thereupon my husband delivered me to the guards who maltreated me grossly and left me outside the town near & wood. In my distress I resolved to put an end to my life by throwing myself down from a hill; when I began to ascend it, some monks perceived me and led me to their guru. He comforted me, and in order to account for my present misfortune, he
related the history of my previous births. 676, 11. * In the ninth birth 'before the present one, he told me, I had been Candrayasa, daughter of a brahman in Brahmapura of Uttarapatha. My friend was Bandhusundari, vife of the merchant Yasodása, a worldly-minded woman. Once I found her very low-spirited; her husband, she said, neglected her as she bad no children, and was in love with Madiravati. There was
