242 went to sleep on the veranda. Exhausted by the exertions of love, his wife also fel] asleep. Because of the great heat, all her limbs, including her thighs, were exposed. The moon had risen also. At that time, Madanavega, king of the Vidyidharas, was traveling through the sky in his flying chariot and saw her. Seeing Lavanyavati, her long limbs shining like plantains of pure gold, her large breasts and deep navel, the infatuated Madanavega made himself invisible, snatched her up, placed her in his chariot, and went with the speed of the wind to his own country» On the way she awoke and seeing that another man was taking her away. she began to lament greatly. In the early morning, Harisvamin also awoke and,^not seeing his beloved; he almost fainted from the pain of his loss.^ He began to lament without cease. He searched everywhere, but could not find her. *0 beautiful one, whose smile would illuminate a temple; 0 beloved, what wrong have I committed that your face, as beautiful as the full moon, should hide itself from me?T he cried. Hearing such unceasing laments, his mother, father, and relatives were distressed for they thought that he had become insane. He became weaker and weaker like the moon in the dark half of the month. No longer able to endure his misfortune, like a soul (leaving the body), he left the city of Varanasi and went to another country. Men who suffer the pain of separation consider their food to be disease, their homes to be poison, their relatives to be snakes, and the whole world to be an impenetrable jungle. And so Harisvamin left everything behind and went oft. Like a goat pulled by a goatherd, he was pulled by a rope ot love and wandered afar. He made many pilgiimages. One day, during the month of Jyaistha, he had walked until midday without having eaten He was very tired, hungry, and thirsty. By and by, he arrived at the house of a wealthy Brahman by the name of Padmanabha. Considering him to be a guest, the householder Brahman welcomed him and gave him lodging. Padmanabha's wife prepared some khir for him to eat. Happily, he took the khir to a lake near the house of Padmanabha and, placing it under the thick shade of a banyan tree, he began to perform his daily worship At that time, a poisonous snake that lived j-here was^ caught by an eagle and carried up into the sky. By chance, the snake fell from the eaglets beak and landed in that very banyan tree. Its body wounded by the eaglet beak, the snake dropped poison from its mouth. Because he was (acting) against fate, the man lost his common sense. Therefore, without thinking, the Brahman ate rhe kh^r. He lay down in the shade of the tree, the poison took effect, and he died. Then Padmanabhd chased his wife out tor he thought that she had killed a Brahman.n Having told this tale, the Vetaia said: "0 King, who is guilty of the Brahman^s death -- the eagle, the snake, the Brahman woman who gave him to eat, or the Brahman himself who ate the khIrV King Vikramasena replied: "Vetaia, the eagle is not guilty for the snake he carried was his appropriate food and was provided him by fate. The poison fell from the snaked mouth because it was wounded by the eagle. It did not drop the poison with t-he intention ot killing the Brahman. Therefore, the snake is not guilty. Neither the householder Brahman nor his wife is guilty for they only fed their guest. The Brahman