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258 thee my youth,' Yayati then said, 'O Puru, I have been gratified with thee! And being gratified I tell thee that the people of thy kingdom shall have all their desires accomplished.'

"And having said this, the great ascetic Yayati, then thinking of Kavya, transferred his decrepitude unto the body of the high-souled Puru."

And thus ends the eighty-fourth Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.

 

( Sambhava Parva continued. )

Vaisampayana said, "And the excellent monarch Yayati the son of Nahusha, having received Puru's youth, became exceedingly gratified. And with it he once more began to indulge in his favorite pursuits to the full extent of his desires and the limit of his powers, according to season, so as to derive the greatest pleasure thereformtherefrom [sic]. And, O king, in nothing that he did, he acted against the precepts of his religion as behoved him well. He gratified the gods by his sacrifices; the pitris by Sradhas; the poor by his charities; all excellent Brahmanas, by ful-filling their desire; all persons entitled to the rites of hospitality, by food and drink; the Vaisayas, by protection; and the Sudras, by kindness. And the king repressed all criminals by proper punishments. And Yayati, gratifying all sections of his subjects, protected them virtuously like another Indra. And the monarch possessed of the prowess of a lion, with youth and every object of enjoyment under control, enjoyed unlimited happiness without transgressing the precepts of religion. And the king became very happy in thus being able to enjoy all the excellent objects of his desire. And he was only sorry when he thought that those thousand years would come to an end. And having obtained youth for a thousand years, the king acquainted with the mysteries of time, and watching proper Kalas and Kashtas, sported with (the celestial damsel) Viswachi, sometimes in the beautiful gardens of Indra, sometimes in Alaka (the city of Kuvera), and sometimes on the summit of