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What is the use of sorrow or lamentation now ! Can Cintă-mani (the thought-gems) lost from the palm of the band, be re-gained repeatedly! Can royal wealth chastised by a penalty of injustice ever eater royal palace again Can a wise good-natured man, greatly insulted without the slightest cause, possibly come back?" The king said: "It would have been better if you had prevented him in the beginning. The minlsters told the king :- It would have been much better if you had not insulted him in the begininng. If the wise intellect developing after the deterioration of a noble cause, menifests itself in the beginning, O good king! what else cannot be accomplished Really fortunate are the peraons, who, having grasped the thing in general, and having grasped the thing in general and its essence by the greatness of his inherent intellect in the beginning, hold it tightly Wte the mouth of a serpent. The klng said " What you say is quite true; but ah! how will the prince, accompained as he is only by his wife, walk a very long distance without a vehicle i The ministers said:- O good king! The Fate that did this separation-the same Fate, will also epeedily take the prince far." Becoming distressed for a long time, the ministers again sent spies to various countries, with the object of getting news about the whereabouts of the prince, and then they went home. The King went into his harem for the purpose of pacifying the sorrow of Queen Campaka-Māla who was distracted by the pangs of separation from ber son.
in course of time, Nara-Vikrama Kumāra, after a long journey, came to a sea-port town named Syandanapura, which was built by the satisfied Prajāpati (Vigvakarman-the architect of the gods) for Laxmi-dévi-who had been annoyed by walking in forests of Lotus-flowers for a long time for her residencewhich prevented the entranc of the rays of the Sun by splendid trees of various kinds and which was full of numerous millionairea. Ignorant of the distinction between houses of the rich, as well as, of the poor, Nars-Vikrama Kumāra entered the house, of a gardener named Pājala located near the main gate of
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