Bhojaprabandha 76_220

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Thereupon, a certain royal officer quickly reported the true character of that learned man before the king. Considering him to be visibly Mahādeva, who had accurately understood his intention, the king went to the assembly. He said to the king: "May there be auspiciousness!" The king embraced him and bowed, and holding his lotus hand with his own lotus hand, he went inside the palace, sat in a very high lattice window, and said: "Brahmin, which syllables has your name made fortunate, and from which land does separation from you torment the virtuous?" Then the poet wrote upon the king's hand: "Kālidāsa." Having read it, the king fell at his feet.