________________ 28 Siri Sirivalakaha (is) done by me, (but) believes in her alan karma alone. (140) "If by that very karma (of her), you your-self are brought (here) as her husband and if she is reaping the fruit of her own action, how am I to be blamed ?" (141) Havin, heard that the girl (Mayanasundari) having got up at once took the hand of Umbara by her own hand, as if performing the marriage ceremony. (142) That girl, whose face was like the autumnal moon, though stopped (or persuaded) by the foudatory princes, ministers, and the women of the inner apartment, said, a noble woman (satee ') as she was: " He (and he) alone is acceptable to me." (143) On one side cries (hor) maternal uncle, on the other (her) mother Ruvasundari, and on the third (all) her attendants. Alas! what an improper thing ! (144) In spite of this, the king, who was very hard-hearted, did not desist from his anger; and Mayana; also, who know the true nature of things (* Tattva ') did not swerve from her - courage. (145) : (Now) when having placed her on the malo,
