[[2]] The god of death (pronounce Yum).
[[3]] Káma, or Kámadéwa, the god of love. His names are innumerable.
[[4]] 'Down-grower,' the banian, which lets down roots from its branches.
[[5]] A name for Love which also means memory.
[[6]] One of the common names of Love is 'the mind-born.'
[[7]] She turned pale, possibly because she saw that her love for the King must have an end: but still more probably because she was afraid of offending the God of Love by not deciding in his favour.
[[8]] Kála, Time, is another name for Yama. The answer of the Princess is clever in the extreme.
DAY 19.
Then the King said to Rasakósha: My friend, now I may offer water[[1]] to my happiness, and this is the beginning of the end. For three days only now remain to me, and these will assuredly follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, and so shall I[[2]]. Then will my sun set for ever. Alas! I read my fate in the sorrow that filled my beloved's eyes, as she looked at me like a frightened fawn. O that she were either less beautiful or less intelligent, for in the union of these two virtues lies my destruction. Away with the portrait, which burns me like a fire. So the King passed the night in a state of delirium, paying no heed to the portrait. And when the sun rose, he rose also, and passed the day, half living and half dead, in the garden with Rasakósha. And when the sun set, they went again to the hall of audience. And there they saw the Princess, clad in a robe of cloth of gold and a bodice studded with turquoises, and her crown and other ornaments, sitting on her throne. And she looked at the King with eyes in which joy and grief fought for the mastery: and the King sank upon a couch, speechless and fascinated, under the spell of her beauty. Then Rasakósha came forward and stood before her and began again: