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Lour queen-has met with her two sons on the ship of this merchant. Becoming extremely delighted, the king asked the ship-owner with astonishment:-" O good man! What is the true account ? Becoming frightened, Dehlla said:-"O good king 1 In the first place, please favour me with the grant of protection to my life, and I will tell you the whole account. The king accepted bls request, and Débila narrated the complete account including his attachment towards her, her being carried away in his ship, her lamentations, bis own allurements to her, and threat of danger to his life from the Goddess of the Sea. On hearing this, King Nara-Vikrama allowed the merchant to go away along with his ship and merchandise Then, Silavati was seated on an elegant female elephant, equipped with a capacious umbrella and white chowries on each side, and she entered the royal palace with great pomp, being honoured and praised by the people at every step, and giving gifts of gold to the poor and helpless, at numerous places. The king celebrated a festival of rejoicing for eight days in the town. The king, patting on costly garments after bath and anointment, relating his own previously experienced incident to Silavatî who was extremely delighted at heart and was surrounded by her two sons, and carefully listening to the episode of her abduction, accidentally remembered the unparalleded good behaviour of gardener Pätala. The King told Šilavati:-Dear ! Even a father cannot be as affectionate as that great man- the gardener. Silavatî replied := Dear husband! What you say is quite true. You confer favour on him by giving him affluent wealth. Ah ! dear! ready acompliebment of the desires of one's benefactors is the fruft of wealth which is as fickle as the clouds of the late evening." King Nara-Vikrama accordingly sent for the gardener from Syandana Nagara Gardener Påtala was made a king of a province, and he was given many elephants, horses, chariots, armed warriors, wealth, and many articles suitable for a kingdom.
One day, King Nara-Vikrama, acompanied by Queen Śilavati and the two princes, went to the pleasure-garden outside
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