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313 293. If through your kindness I do not soon get it then my
death will occur certainly: now that you know this
do what is fitting.' 294. I said to her sadly: 'Tell me darling, where are those
fat-tailed sheep, so that I may fetch their meat.' 295. She replied: 'In the city of Rājagsha in the mansion of
king Srenika is their pasturage : this is the report I
once heard. 296. So go there, dear, if I am to live.' After this speech
I made my way to the outer park of Ujjain. 297. Resting there I was watching the various amusements
of the courtesans who, accompanied by their lovers,
had come there to engage in sports. 298. when from among their midst a courtesan named Maga
dhasenā, possessed of a lovely body, was carried away
by a vidyadhara. • 299. Then her attendants screamed out in a loud voice :
'Run quickly, run quickly, our lady is being carried off.' 300. Hearing this I at once let fly an arrow discharged from
the ear and killed that evil vidyādhara in the sky. 301. Magadhasenā fell from his hand into the water of the
i lake and, getting out of it, came up to me. 302. She said to me courteously in a gentle voice : "Sir, do
me a pleasure, come to my plantain arbour.' 303. There I went and, having bathed and dined and put on
fine clothes which she gave me, I sat down on her bed
of pleasure and she asked me : 304. Good sir, from whence have you come and what is your
• business ?' Thus interrogated I told my story to her. 305. Then said Magadhasenā : 'You are straightforward and
you do not perceive your wife's nature. She is indeed
of extremely evil disposition. 306. If she were of a good disposition and you were dear to
her how would she send you away from home on this
pretext.'
