Verse 35

³⁵That lord of Kosala was pleased, and honoured him with rising to meet him and with a seat and the rest, and with a heavy gift of honour; and he was greeted in return. ³⁶Seeing the husband she had set her heart on come to her, the king's daughter longed for Fortune's lord: May he be my husband; may the fire make my hopes come true, if I have held him fast with my vows. ³⁷He the dust of whose lotus feet Sri carries on her head, and the lotus-born too, and the lord of the mountain with the guardians of the worlds; who, his body being play, has taken bodies in their times out of a wish to hold the line he himself laid down: by what could that Bhagavan be pleased with me?

³⁸Having worshipped him, he spoke again: Narayana, master of the world, what can I do, small as I am, for one who is full with the joy that is his own self? ³⁹Delight of the Kurus, the Bhagavan was glad and took the seat he was offered, and spoke to him smiling, in a voice deep as a cloud.