Verse 22

²²Seeing a house like that with a heart not much pleased, Kardama, who knows what lies in the mind of every creature, spoke to her himself. ²³Bathe in this pool, timid one, and then climb into this flying palace. This ford was made by the white one, and it carries men's wishes through to their end. ²⁴Taking her husband's word, she of the waterlily eyes, wearing a garment stained with dust and her hair gone into a single braid, ²⁵her body covered over with the mud of dirt, her breasts discoloured, went down into the lake of the Sarasvati, whose water is kind. ²⁶Inside the lake, in a house, she saw ten hundred girls, all of them in the first of youth and smelling of the blue lotus.

²⁷Seeing her, the women rose all at once and said with folded hands: We are here to work for you. Tell us: what shall we do? ²⁸Those givers of honour bathed the high-minded woman with a costly bath and gave her a pair of garments of fine linen, spotless and new, ²⁹and ornaments of the greatest price, choice and full of light, and food having every good quality, and a drink that was nectar-wine.