[3] The flower closes when the sun sets.
[4] To keep up his character as a Bráhman boy.
[5] I read dáhaishiná.
[6] This applies also to the god of love who bewilders the mind.
[7] Kara means hand, and also tribute.
[8] I read iva for eva.
[9] Reading taddvárasthitamahattaram as one word.
Chapter XVII.
The next day, the king of Vatsa, sitting in private with Vásavadattá, and Padmávatí, engaged in a festive banquet, sent for Yaugandharáyaṇa, Gopálaka, Rumaṇvat and Vasantaka, and had much confidential conversation with them. Then the king, in the hearing of them all, told the following tale with reference to the subject of his separation from his beloved.