Part 2: Kanakavatī’s parents

Hariścandra was king in this city, spotless as the moon with good qualities, like a younger brother of Biḍaujas because of his wonderful magnificence. The Śrīs continually submitted to slavery to the arched eyebrow of him who was firmly established in victory over the senses, who possessed wisdom and power. His glory, as if in rivalry with unlimited wealth, became boundless and spread unhindered over the earth. His name was hymned by goddesses and Vidyādharīs on the plateaux of Vaitāḍhya because of his spotless glory.

His chief-queen, dearer than life, beautiful, was named Lakṣmīvatī, like Viṣṇu’s Lakṣmī. Because of her good conduct, modesty, affection, cleverness, and good breeding she was moonlight for the delight of the night-bloomig lotus of her husband’s mind. Speaking to her husband in a voice gentle from affection, she poured a stream of nectar, as it were, into the canals of his ears. She was like a living creeper with shoots in the form of arts, with flowers in the form of modesty and other virtues with fruit in the form of devotion to her husband.