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attendants to Kuuśámbí to perform this duty." Then the emperor sent
Váyupatha and Devamáya to attend on their journey his father and his followers, whom he honoured with presents of raiment and ornaments. Then
the king of Vatsa and his suite mounted a heavenly chariot, and he went
to his own city, after making his son, who followed him a long way, turn
back. And queen Vásavadattá, whose longing regret rose at that moment
with hundred-fold force, turned back her dutiful son with tears, and looking back at him, with difficulty tore herself away. And Naraváhanadatta, who, accompanied by his ministers, had followed his parents and elders, returned to that mountain of Rishabha with his eyes blinded with tears. There that emperor remained with his ministers, Gomukha and the rest, who had grown up with him from his youth, and with hosts of Vidyádhara kings, with his wives, and with Madanamanchuká at his side, in the perpetual enjoyment of heavenly pleasures, and he was ever free from satiety.
