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Sridama is persuaded by his wife, Vasumati, who has seen a propitious dream, to repair to Krishna, to see if his opulent friend will restore his broken fortunes. He takes with him a handful of rice, dried and cleaned after boiling, as a present.
After a short time, more of those who had escaped joined the king; and when he was sufficiently recovered, the charming Vasumati, instructed by the ministers, said to him, "All your dominions are lost except this fortress; but such is the power of fate; prosperity, like a bubble on the water, or a flash of lightning, appears and disappears in a moment.
But she raised me up with her arms, and after kissing me again and again, said, with a voice broken by tears and sobs, "O, my darling, surely you have heard from the Queen Vasumati how one night a fairy appeared to her, and placing the child Arthapâla in her arms, told her husband's name and her own; and how the child was brought by order of Kuvera; and then disappeared.
Siva, one of the three chief gods or triad of the Hindoos, Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu, who are sometimes regarded as one, sometimes confounded with each other. Sumantra, son of Dharmapâla. Susruta, son of Padmodbhava. Târâvali, a Yaksha lady, wife of Kâmapâla. Vâmadeva, a holy man consulted by Râjahansa. Vâmalochana, daughter of Víraketu, wife of Somadatta. Vasumati, Queen of Râjahansa.
"Târâvali remained with me, became great friends with her fellow-wife, told her the story which she had related to me, and how her son had been preserved and was taken care of by Queen Vasumati. "Thus I have for some years lived happily, holding, as you know, a very important office."
Though a terror to his enemies, he was beloved by all his subjects, and especially by the learned and pious brahmans, who were continually employed in prayers and sacrifices to the gods, for the welfare of the king and his people. The queen Vasumati was worthy of such a husband.
Kuvera, however, would not allow me to keep the boy, but ordered me to take him to the Queen Vasumati, that he might be brought up together with her son, who will one day become a great monarch. "Having performed the command of the god, I am permitted by him to find you out, and relieve you from your present distress."
This refers to the practice of making the sacrificial fire by rubbing two sticks of Sami. It is a very inflammable wood and is used hence in all sacred rites. Hiranyaretas implies having gold for his vital seed. Vasumati implies endued with wealth, so called because the seed of Agni, identified with gold, is wealth of the highest kind and fell on the Earth who from that time began to hold it.
When the proper time arrived the king celebrated the ceremony called Simanta with great magnificence, and invited several of the neighbouring kings to be present on the occasion; among them was the King of Mithila, with his queen, a great friend of Vasumati to congratulate whom she had accompanied her husband.
But I will tell you how he was lost. "Prahâravarma was formerly king of this country. His queen was a very dear friend of Vasumati; wife of Râjahansa, King of Magadha, and he went with her and his twin sons to visit that king. How he was conquered and driven from his dominions by the King of Mâlwa you have doubtless heard. It was shortly before that invasion that the visit was made.
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