order ' You must come back quickly as soon as my daughter has reached her

husband's palace, in order that I may have early news of her arrival.' So we must certainly go there quickly this very moment ; give us a letter from Karpurika to the king written with her own hand. For otherwise the heart of the king, which is attached to his daughter, will not take com- fort. For he, never having mounted an air-chariot, fears that we may have fallen from it. So give me the letter, and permit this head-warder, who is desirous of ascending the chariot, to depart with me. But I will return here, crown-prince, and will bring my family, for I cannot abandon the two ambrosial lotuses of your feet." When Pranadhara said this firm- ly, the son of the king of Vatsa immediately made Karpurika sit down to write that letter. It ran as follows, " My father, you must not feel anxious about me, since I share the happiness and possess the love of a good husband ; was the goddess Lakshmi an object of anxiety to the ocean after she had betaken herself to the Supreme Bridegroom ?" When she had written the above letter with her own hand, and given it, the son of the king of Vatsa dismissed the warder and Pranadhara with honour. And they ascended the chariot, and produced astonishment in the minds of all, as they were seen going through the air, and crossing the sea they went to the city of Karpurasambhava. There they delighted the king Karpiiraka by reading out his daughter's letter, which told that she had reached her husband's palace. The next day Priinadhara took leave of the king, and alter visiting Rajyadhara, repaired with his family into the presence of Naravahanadatta. Naravahanadatta, when he had returned thus quickly after accomplishing his mission, gave him a dwelling near his palace and an ample allowance. And he amused himself, and his wives, by going about in the flying chariots made by him, as if rehearsing future journeyings in the skies as emperor of the Vidyadharas.

Thus, having delighted his friends, followers and wives, and obtained a third wife Karpurika in addition to JElatnaprabha and Madanamanchuka, the son of the king of Vatsa spent those days in happiness.