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48 husband will serve her. If you stay with him she will not be served. So come away.' I wept and said I could not leave my husband. Again the answer rang out in the melody of a lute : ' I am the husband, I the mother, I the father, I the son and I the daughter ; come to me.' I do not recollect what I said, but then I awoke ! " So saying she stopped and remained silent. Mahendra was quite overcome with amazement and fear. The Doyel rang her melody overhead, the Papiya flooded the skies with her music, and the cuckoo rang the quarters to the echo ; the Bhringaraj shook the woods with her sharp and clear song ; the rivulet murmured softly at their feet ; the wind wafted the odours of wild flowers. Here and there the sun danced and glistened in the ripples and waved by the gentle wind, the palm-leaves made a cracking sound at times. The blue hills were ranged at a distance. In their emotion the pair sat mute for a while. After a very long time Kalyani asked again : " What are you musing about ? " u I was thinking what to do," said he : " dreams are but scares, they grow in the mind and melt in it. They are the shadows of life. Come, let us go home." Kalyani said, " Do go where the gods want you to go " and handed over the girl to him. Mahendra took up the daughter and asked : " And you ? Where would you go ?" Kalyani covered her eyes with her hands, pressed her forehead with her fingers and said : " I too shall go where the god has asked me to go." Mahendra started