Note 9 — Chapter CXV

While he was going through these reflections, his friend, the king of the Gandharvas, came towards him, having obtained a boon. That king of the Gandharvas, having been welcomed with an embrace by Chandraketu, and questioned,9 told him his story, “I went to the city of Śiva and propitiated Śiva with asceticism; and he said to me, ‘Go, thou shalt have a noble son; and thou shalt recover thy kingdom, and obtain a daughter of transcendent beauty, whose husband shall be the heroic slayer of Vidyuddhvaja.’10 Having received this promise from Śiva, I have come here to tell you.”