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 after this she was found by her companions and attendants, who, quickly taking her up in their arms and supporting her into a litter, conveyed her home.

Manaswi, the Brahman's son, was so completely overcome, that he lay there dead to everything. Just then the learned, deeply read, and purblind Pandits Muldev and Shashi by name, strayed into the garden, and stumbled upon the body.

'Friend,' said Muldev, 'how came this youth thus to fall senseless on the ground?'

'Man,' replied Shashi, 'doubtless some damsel has shot forth the arrows of her glances from the bow of her eyebrows, and thence he has become insensible!'

'We must lift him up then,' said Muldev the benevolent.

'What need is there to raise him?' asked Shashi the misanthrope by way of reply.

Muldev, however, would not listen to these words. He ran to the pond hard by, soaked the end of his waistcloth in water, sprinkled it over the young Brahman, raised him from the ground, and placed him sitting against the wall. And perceiving, when he came to himself, that his sickness was rather of the soul than of the body, the old men asked him how he came to be in that plight.

'We should tell our griefs,' answered Manaswi, 'only to those who will relieve us! What is the use