Verse 38

³³The king was delighted. He bathed and made himself clean and put on his ornaments, had the brahmins speak the blessings, and had the birth rite done for the boy. ³⁴To them he gave gold and silver, clothing and ornaments, villages, horses and elephants, and six hundred million milk cows. ³⁵Great-hearted, he rained down on everyone else whatever they wanted, as a rain cloud rains on living things, so that the boy might have good fortune, good name and long life. ³⁶In the son the royal sage had come by with such difficulty the father's love grew day after day, as a poor man's love grows for money got with difficulty. ³⁷The mother's love for her son was greater still, and it came out of a bewilderment. In Krtadyuti's fellow wives there was a fever of wanting a child.

³⁸Citraketu's great fondness for the wife who had borne him a child did not come up in the same way for the others, as he petted the boy day after day.