Note 14 — Chapter CI

And on the next day the king sent off his counter-ambassador, who was a Bráhman named Kumáradatta, to king Mahásena. And he said to the two ambassadors, “Go quickly to that king Mahásena, the lord of Alaká, and say to him from me, ‘I give you my daughter out of friendship; so tell me, will your son come here, or shall I send my daughter to you?’” When the two ambassadors had received this message from the king, they immediately started off together on the sea in a ship; and they reached Śaśánkapura, and thence they travelled by land, and reached that opulent city of Alaká, which seemed like the original Alaká.14 They went to the king’s palace, and entered it with the usual courtesies, and saw king Mahásena who welcomed them. And they told that king the answer which Mandáradeva entrusted to them; and when the king heard it, he was pleased, and shewed both of them great honour.