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Your Gándharva marriage is now complete, so you may release her hand. Here comes some one in great haste.

[The hero releases her.

O lady! good luck to you. You are accepted by the parents of Jímútaváhana.

He! he! The desires of my friend are fulfilled, or rather, I should say, of her highness Malayavatí; or still better, not so much of either of these, as (gesticulating eating) of me, the Brahman.

I am bidden by the young king Mitrávasu, "This is the marriage day of Malayavatí; go therefore quickly, and fetch her." Come, then, let us go.

O daughter of a slave, how can my friend remain here, when you have taken her away?