An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.126.2

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When at last he summoned her for marital intercourse she made it a condition that she should approach her on a bed like to that which she had in the palace of her father, and that both should be adorned with costly ornaments, and she told him to procure these things without impairing his ascetic merit (III, 97). Agastya then went to King Çrutarvan and asked him for wealth, but seeing that his expenditure was equal to his income, he took nothing, but, together with Çrutarvan, went to King Trasadasyu Paurukutsa of the line of Ikshvāku, with the same result. At the suggestion of the three kings they all four went to Ilvala (III, 98). Ilvala went out with his ministers to receive them on the confines of his domain. He prepared the flesh of Vātāpi in order to entertain them, at which the kings became sad, but Agastya ate it all, and when Ilvala summoned Vātāpi there came only air out of Agastya's stomach, Vātāpi having already been digested. Then Ilvala, becoming sad, promised to give them wealth if Agastya could tell him what he intended to give, and Agastya rightly said that he intended to give each of the kings 10,000 cows and as many gold coins, and to Agastya twice as much, and a car that would be found to be a golden one, with two steeds (Virāva and Surāva). The car brought Agastya and the kings to Agastya's hermitage within the twinkling of an eye. Then the rājarshis went away to their cities.