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74 that very god whose garment is of rays, with his disc red as the eyes of a must buffalo exhausted by heat. Then Makaranda, getting fruits and roots, brought an abundance of pleasing food in some way or other, and himself ate the remainder of what had been enjoyed by Kandarpakētu. Thereupon, placing that most dear one on the tablet of his heart, looking on her as if limned by a pencil, [108] Kandarpakētu, with unshaken resolution, slept on a couch of boughs prepared by Makaranda. Then, when but half a watch of the night had elapsed, Kandarpakētu heard there, on the tip of the rose-apple tree, the chatter of a parrot and a maina quarrelling one with the other, and he said to Makaranda: 'Good friend, let us now listen to the chit-chat of this pair'!

[109] Then the maina said, in a voice tremulous with anger: 'Wretch! you have gone off courting some other maina! How else have you passed this night'? Hearing this, the parrot said to her: 'My dear, an unprecedented story has been heard and witnessed by me ; for this reason there has been a loss of time.'