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TRANSLATION 742. 'You, sir, have bought me to-day at the price of giving
your life; therefore I will adore your feet; do me a
great favour. 743. Get up, my lord, let us go to my plaintain arbour in the
shade of an aśoka tree and let me now remove the
weariness from your body by a massage.' 744. I followed her accompanied by her retinue and went to
the plantain arbour and after massage and anointing
and bathing and eating, 745. she made me lie on a couch. Then seated on a comfort
able chair she asked : 'My lord, from where have you
come here ?? I recounted everything. 746. She said: 'Dear sir, your nature is an upright one:
that woman has devised your going away with an evil
intent. 747. Only womenkind are able to know the secrets of women
kind; it takes a snake to know a female snake, can
anyone else know? 748. I said to her : She is tender, of a good disposition and
well brought up; do not, my dear, speak thus of my
wife, she is certainly (not evil ?) 749. When the afternoon came she removed from her head the
cūļāmaņi and tied it on mine saying to me: Come
to my house, my lord. 750. I agreed, so a servant brought up a carriage and I got
onto it together with Magadhasenā. 751. Having mounted her peerless carriage which was yoked
to a white ox she set out towards the city taking me .. with her. Her eyes were opened wide. -752. Now, unable to endure the uproar of the crowd with the
sound of conches and drums, a gandha-hastin on must
broke its tethering post. 753. Galloping at the pace of a horse it ran quickly towards
the point where there was the hubbub of the crowd, with uplifted tusks like pestles.
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