[1] Kah-gyur, vol. ix. pp. 26–42. [↑]
[2] Andropogon muricatus.—S. [↑]
[3] Jambu: “Name of a fabulous river, said to flow from the mountain Meru, and to be formed by the juice of the fruits of an immense Jambu-tree on that mountain.” [↑]
[4] Nirgrantha, “Freed from all ties or hindrances; a saint, a devotee, who has withdrawn from the world, &c.” [↑]
[5] “A fast-day, day of preparation for the Soma sacrifice, &c.” [↑]
X.
UTPALAVARṆĀ.[1]
There lived in Takshaśilā a very rich householder, to whom his wife bore a daughter of great beauty. As the child’s eyes were like blue lotus blossoms, and as she exhaled a lotus-like fragrance, while the colour of her body resembled that of the lotus stamen, her relations gave her the name of Utpalavarṇā.[2] As her father had no son, he determined that, when his daughter was grown up, he would give her in marriage only to one who, on becoming his son-in-law, would take up his abode with him.