The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-09-19
Taranga 8

Fyews tAt SsHttrai r,astiani fsr fAs .ivk
 aaidw Isapsisy, 1Y Ralfa |. Gs,aivaA.
 Thus by the advice of Gunadhya, that heavenly tale consisting of seven eolec- tions of stories was told by klnabhu,i in his oSn language and they were con. nected together in seven years into seven hundred thousand verses by GunadhyA, who used the Pisacha language and les! the Vldyadharas should steal them. that great poet wrote them in the totes, with his own blood, not having any ink. And so the Siddhas, Vidyadharas and other demons came there to hear, and the sky above was continually like a canopy. And when k anabhuti saw the great poem composed by Gunadhya. he was released from his curse and went to his own place. There were other pi. sachas who accompanied him, they all attained heaven alter hearing the divine tale.
 This great poem of mine must be- come famous in the world, for thls was the object the goddess had in view when she revealed how my curse would end Then how shall attain this object To whom shall enHus, ], so long5' Thus Gunadhya, that giea, poet, reflected. Then the two pupils who accompanied the teacher, one named GunadevA and the other Nsndideva, addressed hlm " The renowned Satavaha ana is the only person who should be the dcpo.itory oi this poem, for being a man of elegant taste he will spread abroad the poem, even as the wind the fragrance Of flowers" Let it be so,' Gunadhya said, giving the book to those two distinguished pupils, and sent them to the king, and he himself went to that pfaiishthana re- maining outside of the city, and m ade an appointment in a garden laid out by the goddess when they should meet him. The two pupils then wen, to King Sa,a- vahana, and showed him the poem say ing that it was the work of Cunadhya When he heard the Psacha language. and saw that they appeared like P,saehss, the Raja, puffed up with his learning, thus sneeringIy said, Seven hundred thousand slokas are an authority, but the pisacha language Is insipid, the letters of this are written in blood. Out upon this pIscha taie.' Then the s~o pupil. .eck the book, and vent away as they came, asd told the whole matter 10 Gun adbya When Cunadhya heard that he was i'm. mediateiy overcome wish sorrow for who indeed is not inwardIy gnsved when his work is despised by one who truly knows? Then with his pupils he ven, to high mountain not very far of, at a lonely but pleasant spot, and frs, made A hoe for the oonSecrased fire. Then having read aloud % as to be heard by ths beasts and birds, he threw the leaves one after another into the Ere while his pupils looked on with tearfui eyes. He excepted one story of a hundred thousand slokas containing the history of Nassva- hanadatsa for the sake of his pupils who desired to keep 1t, and while he repeated this divine tale to them and burned il, indeed all the lions, bears, budAioes aad other animals, abandoning their pss,uT- age, came there around him, listening with tsars in their eyes, inmovabis and rooted to the spot.
 AThes h the msansime the Rajs Sssa- vahaaa became sick and his physiciaa said sis illness was the result Of eating dry meat and the cooks being blamed for the cause of it, declared: The