And that rogue of an elephant dives with his trunk and his feet and his tusks into the city of Ujjayinī, as if it were a lotus-pond in full flower. At last he comes upon a Buddhist monk.[43] And while the man's staff and his water-jar and his begging-bowl fly every which way, he drizzles water over him and gets him between his tusks. The people see him and begin to shriek again, crying "Oh, oh, the monk is killed!" _Vasantasenā._ [_Anxiously._] Oh, what carelessness, what carelessness! _Karnapūraka._ Don't be frightened. Just listen, mistress. Then, with a big piece of the broken chain dangling about him, he picked him up, picked up the monk between his tusks, and just then Karnapūraka saw him, _I_ saw him, no, no! the slave who grows fat on my mistress' rice-cakes saw him, stumbled with his left foot over a gambler's score, grabbed up an iron pole out of a shop, and challenged the mad elephant-- _Vasantasenā._ Go on! Go on! _Karnap._ I hit him--in a fit of passion, too-- He really looked like some great mountain peak. And from between those tusks of his I drew The sacred hermit meek. 20 _Vasantasenā._ Splendid, splendid! But go on! _Karnapūraka._ Then, mistress, all Ujjayinī tipped over to one side, like a ship loaded unevenly, and you could hear nothing but "Hurrah, hurrah for Karnapūraka!" Then, mistress, a man touched the places where he ought to have ornaments, and, finding that he hadn't any, looked up, heaved a long sigh, and threw this mantle over me. [41.19. S. _Vasantasenā._ Find out, Karnapūraka, whether the mantle is perfumed with jasmine or not. _Karnapūraka._ Mistress, the elephant perfume is so strong that I can't tell for sure. _Vasantasenā._ Then look at the name. _Karnapūraka._ Here is the name. You may read it, mistress. [_He hands her the mantle._] _Vasantasenā._ [_Reads._] Chārudatta. [_She seizes the mantle eagerly and wraps it about her._] _Madanikā._ The mantle is very becoming to her, Karnapūraka. _Karnapūraka._ Oh, yes, the mantle is becoming enough. _Vasantasenā._ Here is your reward, Karnapūraka. [_She gives him a gem._] _Karnapūraka._ [_Taking it and bowing low._] Now the mantle is most wonderfully becoming. _Vasantasenā._ Karnapūraka, where is Chārudatta now? _Karnapūraka._ He started to go home along this very street. _Vasantasenā._ Come, girl! Let us go to the upper balcony and see Chārudatta. [_Exeunt omnes._ FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 39: Perhaps masseur would be more accurate.] [Footnote 40: That of Māthura, the keeper of the gambling house.] [Footnote 41: A humorously exaggerated reference to Indian ascetic practices.] [Footnote 42: See note on page 33.] [Footnote 43: The shampooer, whose transformation is astonishingly sudden.] ACT THE THIRD THE HOLE IN THE WALL [_Enter Chārudatta's servant, Vardhamānaka._] _Vardh._