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Good sir, what of Jímútaváhana?

I am sent to you by king Visvávasu to learn tidings of Jímútaváhana.

Is not my child there with him?

O king! if he is not there, where can my boy be gone?

Assuredly he will be gone somewhere for our benefit.

I dread something very different, from the non-appearance of my husband.

Give your orders. What message am I to take my lord?

I am perfectly bewildered in my mind with the thought that Jímútaváhana delays so long. Why do you keep throbbing, O left eye, again and again, indicating some evil as about to happen? Base that you are, yonder sun shall stop your throbbings. (Looking up.)