Poetical works 3d63d ed Volume 1 Author:Sir Edwin Arnold This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... shall be wrought. As I was safely led By good Sudeva home, so let him go--With none less happy fortune,--to bring back Ere many days my N... more »ala: let him seek Ayodhya, mother dear, and fetch my Prince." But first Parnada, resting from his road,--That best of twice-born,--did the Princess thank With honourable words and gifts: "If home My Nala cometh, Brahman," so she spake, "Great guerdon will I give! Thou hast well done For me herein; better than any man, Helping me find again my wandered lord." To which fair words made soft reply and prayers For "peace and fortune " that high-minded one, And so passed home, his service being wrought. Xext, to Sudeva spake the sad Princess, This (0 my King!)--her mother standing by: "Good Brahman! to Ayodhya's city go; Say in the ears of Eaja Eituparn, As though thou cam'st a simple traveller: 'The daughter of King Bhima once again Maketh to hold her high Swayamvara; The kings and princes from all lands repair Thither; the time draws nigh; to-morrow's dawn Shall bring the day. If thou wouldst be of it, Speed quickly, conquering King! at sun-setting Another lord she chooseth for herself; Since whether Nala liveth or is dead None knoweth.'" These the words which he should say, And, learning them, he sped and thither came, That Brahmana Sudeva, and he spake To Maharaja Eituparna so. JMOW when the Eaja Eituparna heard Sudeva's words, he said to Vahuka Eight pleasantly: "Much mind I have to go Where Damayanti holds Swayamvara; If to Vidarbha in a single day Thou deemest we might drive, my charioteer!" Of Nala, by his Master thus addressed, Eent was the heart with anguish, for he thought: "Can Damayanti purpose this? could grief So change her? is it not some fine device Fo...« less