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Updated: June 5, 2025
O best ascetics, in this world the number of snakes baffles calculation, there being many thousands and millions of them." So ends the thirty-fifth section in the Astika Parva of the Adi Parva. "Saunaka said, 'O child, thou hast named many of the serpents gifted with great energy and incapable of being easily overcome. What did they do after hearing of that curse?
Then he smote my she-camel with his sword, and she would have died, though ye had not come to her and cut her throat. Next morning the prince mounted the beast of one of his companions and taking the latter up behind him, set out and fared on till midday, when they saw a man coming towards them, mounted on a camel and leading another, and said to him, 'Who art thou? 'I am Adi, son of Hatim et Tai, answered he.
Thus asked, his father related all about the story." So ends the twelfth section in the Pauloma Parva of the Adi Parva. "Saunaka said, 'For what reason did that tiger among kings, the royal Janamejaya, determine to take the lives of the snakes by means of a sacrifice? O Sauti, tell us in full the true story.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Adi ended his verses he went to his lodging and lay that night restless and without appetite for the food of sleep. Now on the morrow Mariyah accosted him and he received her kindly, though before he would not incline to her, and said to her, "What is thy will?"
"Well sung, O Fatin! exclaimed the Caliph; "whose verse is this?" And she answered, "Adi bin Zayd's, and the air is antique." Then all three drank, whilst the damsels retired and were succeeded by other ten maidens, as they were sparkling stars, clad in flowered silk embroidered with red gold and girt with jewelled zones.
Then I can look after her! Don't wait up for me, mother." "Very well. But, tell me, Jean. Will Le Mierre be there? Has she met him since his return from Jersey?" "He will be there, for certain," broke in Perrin. "And, for certain, she has not see him yet. She told me so herself. Adi, then, toute la compagnie." He swung along and was soon out of sight.
The destruction of the snakes in the sacrifice hath, indeed, been ordained long ago. Saying this, the divine Creator of the Universe comforted Kasyapa and imparted to that illustrious one the knowledge of neutralising poison." And so ends the twentieth section in the Astika Parva of the Adi Parva.
'Where is Dhoulkeraa, prince of Himyer? 'This is he, replied they, and he said to the prince, 'Take this camel in place of thine own, which my father slaughtered for thee. 'Who told thee of this? asked Dhoulkeraa, and Adi answered, 'My father appeared to me in a dream last night and said to me, "Harkye, Adi; Dhoulkeraa, King of Himyer, sought hospitality of me and I, having nought to give him, slaughtered him his she-camel, that he might eat: so do thou carry him a she-camel to ride, for I have nothing." And Dhoulkeraa took her, marvelling at the generosity of Hatim et Tai, alive and dead.
Them she went to Adi and said to him, 'Make a feast and bid the King thereto; and when wine hath gotten the better of him, ask of him the hand of his daughter, for he will not refuse thee. Quoth Adi, 'I fear lest this enrage him against me and be the cause of enmity between us.
Then he took her into a vintner's tavern in one of the by streets of Hirah, and lay with her; after which she returned to Hind and asked her, "Dost thou not long to see Adi?" She answered, "How can this be? Indeed my longing for him makes me restless, and no repose is left me since yesterday." Quoth Mariyah, "I will appoint him to be in such a place, where thou canst look on him from the palace."
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