वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

A SANSKRIT ROMANCE 141 made the termination of the curse concurrent with the touch of the hand of my noble lord.’ Then Kandarpakētu, together with Makaranda, who¹ had come up, and with Vāsavadattā,² [300] went to his own city,³ and lived⁴ enjoying blisses as his heart desired.⁵ girl suffers much distress”—and through pity for my noble lord, this hermit, being entreated.’ ¹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text add ‘who had heard of the event.’ ² Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘that Vāsavadattā.’ ³ Tel. ed. adds ‘Pāṭalīputra,’ which was, however, the old home of Vāsavadattā, not of Kandarpakētu (see above, p. 75). ⁴ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘lived much time with them twain.’ ⁵ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text add ‘(and) that could scarcely be gained in the world of the gods.’ Tel. ed. also adds two stanzas, the first being the thirteenth of Hall’s introductory stanzas, and the second being the eleventh introductory stanza of the Harṣacarita; the Srirangam text omits the latter interpolation, but here appends the thirteenth introductory stanza of Hall.