and then with utterance choked in joy and tears said, “I have been favoured indeed!” And the king of the frogs obtaining the leave of his daughter, returned to the place from which he had come and some time after the king begot three sons upon her and those sons were named Sala and Dala and Vala, and some time after, their father, installing the eldest of them of all on the throne and setting his heart on asceticism, retired into the forest.  One day Sala while out a-hunting, beheld a deer and pursued it, on his car, and the prince said to his charioteer, “Drive thou fast.”  And the charioteer, thus addressed, replied unto the king, saying, “Do not entertain such a purpose.  This deer is incapable of being caught by thee.  If indeed Vami horses had been yoked to thy car, then couldst thou have taken it.”  Thereupon the king addressed his charioteer, saying, “Tell me all about Vami horses, otherwise I will slay thee.”  Thus addressed the charioteer became dreadfully alarmed and he was afraid of the king and also of Vamadeva’s curse and told not the king anything and the king then lifting up his scimitar said to him, “Tell me soon, else I will slay thee.”  At last afraid of the king, the charioteer said, “The Vami horses are those belonging to Vamadeva; they are fleet as the mind.”  And unto his charioteer who had said so, the king said, “Repair thou to the asylum of Vamadeva.”  And reaching the asylum of Vamadeva the king said unto that Rishi, “O holy one, a deer struck by me is flying away.  It behoveth thee to make it capable of being seized by me by granting me thy pair of Vami horses.”  The Rishi then answered him saying, “I give thee my pair of Vami horses.  But after accomplishing thy object, my Vami pair you should soon return.”  The king then taking those steeds and obtaining the leave of the Rishi pursued the deer, having yoked the Vami pair unto his car, and after he had left the asylum he spoke unto his charioteer saying, “These jewels of steeds the Brahmanas do not deserve to possess.  These should not be returned to Vamadeva.”  Having said this and seized the deer he returned to his capital and placed those steeds within the inner apartments of the palace.

    [8] An Indian creeper of the order of Goertnera racemosa.  It
    bears large white flowers of much fragrance.

“’Meanwhile the Rishi reflected, “The prince is young.  Having obtained an excellent pair of animals, he is sporting with it in joy without returning it to me.  Alas, what a pity it is!” And reflecting in this strain, the Rishi said unto a disciple of his, after the expiration of a month, “Go, O Atreya, and say to the king that if he has done with the Vami steeds, he should return them unto thy preceptor.”  And the disciple Atreya, thereupon, repairing to the king, spoke unto him as instructed, and the king replied saying, “This pair of steeds deserves to be