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1.The sowing of the seed of the plot: Yaugandharayana first reveals his plan: “I, too, did the right thing when I placed her in the queen’s hands, showing her great respect.” [R 1.28].

2.The ripening of the seed of the plot: Yaugandharayana: “Or else, how could this happen? First, because of my confidence in a seer’s prediction, we asked the king of Simhala (‘another continent’) for the hand of his daughter in marriage. In the ocean (‘from the middle of the ocean’) she was shipwrecked and fell into the water, but found a board and climbed up onto it. And then a merchant from Kaushambi who was returning from Simhala met her while she was still in that condition, recognized her from the sign of her jewel necklace, and brought her here! (‘what we want’).” [R 1.28].

3.Fixing the seed firmly in the ground: Yaugandharaya- na:

“This undertaking will bring prosperity to my

master,

and since it depends upon the helping hand that

fate has given,

success cannot elude us. All this is true. And yet,

because I have acted of my own accord,

I am rather afraid of my master.” [R 1.29 (verse 7)].

4.Praise of the hero or heroine: The herald compares the king to the rising moon. [R 1.128 (verse 23)].

5.The conception of a plan: Yaugandharayana: “And I have heard that Babhravya too, the chamberlain, together with Vasu·bhuti, the minister of the king of Simhala, somehow or other crossed the ocean and ________