ABSTRACT
THERE lived in Takshasila a very rich householder, to whom his wife bore a daughter of great beauty. As the child’s eyes were like blue lotus blossoms, and as she exhaled a lotus-like fragrance, while the colour of her body resembled that of the lotus stamen, her relations gave her the name of Utpalavarna. 2 As her father had no son, he determined that, when his daughter was grown up, he would give her in marriage only to one who, on becoming his son-in-law, would take up his abode with him.
