Shall be his pride and darling now.”

Another, Vikatá by name,

In words like these addressed the dame:

“The king whose blows, in fury dealt,

The Nágas[840] and Gandharvas[841] felt,

In battle's fiercest brunt subdued,

Has stood by thee and humbly wooed.

And wilt thou in thy folly miss

The glory of a love like this?

Scared by his eye the sun grows chill,