Immortal, O my loves, with me.”

The hundred girls, to wonder stirred,

The wooing of the Wind-God heard,

Laughed, as a jest, his suit aside,

And with one voice they thus replied:

“O mighty Wind, free spirit who

All life pervadest, through and through,

Thy wondrous power we maidens know;

Then wherefore wilt thou mock us so?

Our sire is Kuśanábha, King;