42. He roved afar in distant forests and deserts, and in jungles of _Jám_ and _Jám bira_ trees; they passed by paths bordered by Játí or jasmine plants, and, in short they took delight in everything in the company of one another. 43. The mutual attachment to one another was as delightsome to the people as the union of the raining sky with the cultivated ground; both tending to the welfare of mankind by the productiveness of the general weal. (This far-fetched simile and the mazy construction of the passage is incapable of a literal version). 44. They were both skilled in the arts of love and music, and were so united together by their mutual attachment, that the one was a counterpart of the other. 45. Being seated in each others heart, they were as two bodies with one soul; so that the learning of the sástras of the one, and the skill in painting and fine arts of the other, were orally communicated to and learnt by one another. 46. She from her childhood was trained in every branch of learning, and he learned the arts of dancing and playing on musical instruments, from the oral instructions of _Chúdálá_. 47. They learned and became learned in the respective arts and parts of one another; as the sun and moon being set in conjunction (amavasyá), impart to and partake of the qualities of each other. 48. Being mutually situated in the heart of one another, they became the one and the same person and both being in the same inclination and pursuit, were the more endeared to one another (as a river running to the milky ocean is assimilated to the ocean of milk, so all souls mixing with the supreme soul form one universal and only soul). 49. They were joined in one person, as the _androgyne_ body of Umá and Siva on earth; and were united in one soul, as the different fragrances of flowers are mixed up with the common air. Their clearness of understanding and learning of the sástras led them both in the one and same way. 50. They were born on earth to perform their parts, like the God _Vishnu_ and his consort Lakshmí; they were equally frank and sweet by their mutual affection, and were as informed as communicative of their learning to others. 51. They followed the course of the laws and customs, and attended to the affairs of the people; they delighted in the arts and sciences, and enjoyed their sweet pleasures also. They appeared as the two moons, shining with their beams. 52. They tasted all their sweet enjoyments of life, in the quiet and solitary recesses of their private apartments, as a couple of giddy swans sporting merrily in the lake of the azure sky. CHAPTER LXXVIII. BEATIFICATION OF CHÚDÁLÁ. Argument:--The distaste and indifference of the happy pair to worldly enjoyments. Vasishtha continued:--In this manner did this happy pair, revel for many years in the pleasures of their youth, and tasted with greater zest, every new delight that came on their way day by day.