Verse 67

⁶⁰In that best of houses, built of masses of great jewels, cherished by his father past all measure, he lived as a god lives in heaven. ⁶¹There were beds like the froth of milk, of ivory under gold coverings, seats worth a great deal, and all the furnishings of gold. ⁶²There, on walls of crystal and of great emerald, jewelled lamps shone, held up by women shaped out of gems. ⁶³There were pleasant gardens with the many-coloured trees of the gods, pairs of birds calling in them, and bees drunk and singing, ⁶⁴and ponds with steps of beryl, bearing lotuses and blue lilies and white, and busy with flocks of geese and ducks, with ruddy geese and cranes.

⁶⁵Uttanapada, the royal sage, heard of that power of his son and saw it, most wonderful as it was, and was struck with the greatest astonishment. ⁶⁶Seeing that Dhruva had come of age, that his officers thought well of him and his people loved him, the king made him lord of the earth. ⁶⁷And the lord of the people, reckoning himself well on in years, detached now, set out for the forest, turning over in his mind the way the self must go.