Note 10 — Chapter XC · (Vetála 16.)

While Jímútaváhana was going through these reflections, a doorkeeper came from Mitrávasu’s father to summon them, and Jímútaváhana sent Mitrávasu home, saying to him, “Go you on first, I will follow.” And after he had gone, the compassionate man roamed about alone, intent on effecting the object he had in view, and he heard afar off a piteous sound of weeping. And he went on, and saw near a lofty rocky slab a young man of handsome appearance plunged in grief: an officer of some monarch seemed to have just brought him and left him there, and the young man was trying to induce by loving persuasions10 an old woman, who was weeping there, to return.