Shall seek these shades then drear and wild,
His coming shall remove thy stain,
And make the sinner pure again.
Due honour paid to him, thy guest,
Shall cleanse thy fond and erring breast,
Thee to my side in bliss restore,
And give thy proper shape once more.”[218]
Thus to his guilty wife he said,
Then far the holy Gautam fled,
And on Himálaya's lovely heights