28. He saw there the auspicious royal elephant decorated with its gemming and embroidered trappings; and appearing as the golden mountain of the gods moving on the earth.
29. He learnt it to be rambling about in search of a new king, to be elected in lieu of the last king who was lately dead. The royal elephant was employed as a jeweller to select the best gem to be placed on the royal throne.
30. The Chandála remained to look steadfastly on the elephant with his curious eye, and found it to be no other than a hill in motion.
31. As he was looking on it with amazement, the elephant came to him and lifted him with his trunk; then setting him on his head with respect, bore him as the mount Meru bears the sun on its top.
32. Seeing him to be sitting on the animal’s head, the people sounded their trumpets; the noise whereof was as loud as that of the resounding ocean, to the roaring of the diluvian clouds in the sky.
33. Then the acclamation of ‘Victory to the king,’ rose from the assembled throng and filled the air around; and seemed as it were the united cry of matutinal birds over the waking (or rising) world.
34. Next rose the loud voices of the panegyrists, which, moved in the air like the dashing waves of the sea.
35. Then the matrons joined to anoint him as their king, and moved about him like the waves of the sea; surrounding the Mandara mountain after its labour of churning.
36. The respectable ladies adorned him afterwards with many ornaments of various gems, as the sea laves the rock on its shore; with the many coloured waves under the beams of the rising sun.
37. Youthful maidens poured cooling ointments on him, as the raining clouds pour down their waters, on the tops of mountains.