Note 5 — Chapter CV

In the meanwhile Vegavatí carried Naraváhanadatta through the air to the mountain Ásháḍhapura. And Mánasavega, hearing of it, hastened there to kill them both. Then Vegavatí engaged with her brother in a struggle which was remarkable for a great display of magic power; for a woman values her lover as her life, and much more than her own relations. Then she assumed by the might of her magic a terrible form of Bhairava, and at once striking Mánasavega senseless, she placed him on the mountain of Agni.5 And she took Naraváhanadatta, whom at the beginning of the contest she had deposited in the care of one of her sciences,6 and placed him in a dry well in the city of the Gandharvas, to keep him. And when he was there, she said to him, “Remain here a little while, my husband; good fortune will befall you here; and do not despond in your heart, O man appointed to a happy lot, for the sovereignty over all the Vidyádharas is to be yours. But I must leave this for the present, to appease my sciences, impaired by my resistance to my elder brother; however, I will return to you soon.” When the Vidhyádharí Vegavatí had said this, she departed somewhere or other.