Then he communicated the order of Vishnu to Indra, who received it with reverent mind, and so the hermit caused Urvasí to be given to Purúravas. That gift of Urvasí deprived the inhabitants of heaven of life, but it was to Urvasí herself an elixir to restore her to life. Then Purúravas returned with her to the earth, exhibiting to the eyes of mortals the wonderful spectacle of a heavenly bride. Thenceforth those two, Urvasí and that king, remained, so to speak, fastened together by the leash of gazing on one another, so that they were unable to separate. One day Purúravas went to heaven, invited by Indra to assist him, as a war had arisen between him and the Dánavas. In that war the king of the Asuras, named Máyádhara, was slain, and accordingly Indra held a great feast, at which all the nymphs of heaven displayed their skill. And on that occasion Purúravas, when he saw the nymph Rambhá performing a dramatic dance called chalita, [224] with the teacher Tumburu standing by her, laughed. Then Rambhá said to him sarcastically--"I suppose, mortal, you know this heavenly dance, do you not?" Purúravas answered, "From associating with Urvasí, I knew dances which even your teacher Tumburu does not know." When Tumburu heard that, he laid this curse on him in his wrath, "Mayest thou be separated from Urvasí until thou propitiate Krishna." When he heard that curse, Purúravas went and told Urvasí what had happened to him, which was terrible as "a thunderbolt from the blue." Immediately some Gandharvas swooped down, without the king's seeing them, and carried off Urvasí, whither he knew not. Then Purúravas, knowing that the calamity was due to that curse, went and performed penance to appease Vishnu in the hermitage of Badariká. But Urvasí, remaining in the country of the Gandharvas, afflicted at her separation, was as void of sense as if she had been dead, asleep, or a mere picture. She kept herself alive with hoping for the end of the curse, but it is wonderful that she did not lose her hold on life, while she remained like the female chakraváka during the night, the appointed time of her separation from the male bird. And Purúravas propitiated Vishnu by that penance, and, owing to Vishnu's having been gratified, the Gandharvas surrendered Urvasí to him. So that king, re-united to the nymph whom he had recovered at the termination of the curse, enjoyed heavenly pleasures, though living upon earth. The king stopped speaking, and Vásavadattá felt an emotion of shame at having endured separation, when she heard of the attachment of Urvasí to her husband. Then Yaugandharáyana, seeing that the queen was abashed at having been indirectly reproved by her husband, said, in order to make him feel in his turn,--"King, listen to this tale, if you have not already heard it. Story of Vihitasena.