CHAPTER VII.

Bakáwalí goes to the Court of Indra, where she sings and dances—The Deity, enraged at her love for a human being, pronounces a curse upon her—The Prince goes to Ceylon, where he finds Bakáwalí confined in a Temple, the lower part of her body being turned into marble—Chitrawat, the daughter of the Rájá, falls in love with him, and on his declining her overtures he is thrown into prison 316