Kathasaritsagara 2.2.118.p1

2.2.118.p1

- - v| - - - - v| % A ma-vipulā, caesura after 5th syllable in compound or incorrect?
- v - -| v - v - % B correct
- - - v v - - v| % C pathyā
- - v v v - v| - % D correct

But Śrídatta then brought at eventide a woman with her daughter into the palace of the princess, after making them both drink spirits, and then Bhávaniká on pretence of lighting up the palace, set fire to it, and secretly conveyed the princess out of it; and that moment Śrídatta, who was remaining outside, received her, and sent her on to Báhuśálin, who had started in the morning, and directed two of his friends to attend on her and also Bhávaniká, Now that drunken woman and her daughter were burnt in the palace of the princess, and people supposed that the princess had been burnt with her friend. But Śrídatta took care to show himself in the morning, as before, in the city; then on the second night, taking with him his sword Mrigánka, he started to follow his beloved, who had set out before him. And in his eagerness he accomplished a great distance that night, and when the morning watch had passed, he reached the Vindhya forest. There he first beheld unlucky omens, and afterwards he saw all those friends of his together with Bhávaniká lying in the road gashed with wounds. And when he came up all distracted, they said to him, " We were robbed to-day by a large troop of horsemen that set upon us. And after we were reduced to this, state, one of the horsemen threw the terrified princess on his horse and carried her off.