And to his ready kinsmen said:

“Awake, each kinsman, rise, each friend!

May every joy your lives attend.

Gather each boat upon the shore

And ferry all the army o'er.”

Thus Guha spoke: nor they delayed,

But, rising quick, their lord obeyed,

And soon, from every side secured,

Five hundred boats were ready moored.

Some reared aloft the mystic sign,[363]