of battle searching- for their husbands, and when they found
them dead, slew themselves with the weapons that had
stricken their loved ones. Filthy carrion-beasts and creatures
of the other spheres, Yakshas, Pishachas, Virupikas, Kum-
bhandas, Rakshasas and Putanas, V^talas and Kushmandas(^1),
prowled about and fought amongst themselves over the
corpses.
Leaving" the scene of the battle, the two entered the palace
where Lila's husband was seeking a moment's rest from the
day's toil in sleep. They entered through the walls, which
offered no obstruction to their subtle forms. There is obstruc-
tion only for the Adhi"bhautika(^2) bodies filled with the fixed
consciousness of length and breadth and grossness, filled with
the thought, ^I cannot enter here, I am resisted."
A holy influenceispread through the sleeping-chamber of
the king as the two beings entered it, and under its soft touch
the'king awoke with a new sense of gladness. He saw the
two Apsara-forms(^3) and offered them handfuls of flowers
from the vase standing beside the bed, in welcome and in
salutation. The king^s chief minister, rest-ing in that same
chamber on that rest-less night, also awoke and greeted them.
The Goddess then addressed the king: "Who art thou,
0 king !, and born of whom ?'*
The minister answered for the king: "My master,
king Vidu-ratha, is the tenth descendant of king Kunda-ratha
of Ikshvaku's line. And he and I have this day found the
fruit of our past good deeds in this high and holy vision
of you."
(1) Names for varieties of elementals and elementaries, ghosts,
goblins, imps, fiends, demons, "brownies, inoubi and suooubi, etc.
(2) Physical, composed of physical elements.
(3) Celestial forma, 'made of the sun's rays, by 'which the "waters
aseend and descend as vapor and rain',