sel named Jāna-padi and sent her unto Gautama, saying, 'Do thy best to disturb the austerities of Gautama.' Repairing unto the charming asylum of Saradwan, the damsel began to tempt that ascetic equipped with bow and arrows. Beholding that Apsarā, of figure unrivalled on earth for beauty, alone in those woods and clad in a single piece of cloth, Saradwan's eyes expanded with delight. At sight of the damsel, his bow and arrow slipped from his hand and his frame shook all over with emotion; but possessed of ascetic fortitude and strength of soul, the sage mustered sufficent patience to bear up against the temptation. The suddenness, however, of his mental agitation, caused an unconscious emission of his vital fluid. Leaving his bow and arrows and deer-skin behind, he went away, flying from the Apsarā. His vital fluid, however, having fallen upon a clump of heath, was divided into two parts, whence sprang two children that were twins.
"And it happened that a soldier in atttendance upon king Shantanu while the monarch was out ahunting in the woods, came upon the twins. And seeing the bow and arrows and deer-skins on the ground, he thought they might be the offspring of some Brahmana proficient in the science of arms. Deciding thus, he took up the children along with the bow and arrows, and showed what he found to the king. Beholding them the king was moved with pity, and saying, 'Let these become my children,' brought them to his palace. Then that first of men, Shantanu the son of Pratipa, having brought Gautama's twins into his house, performed in respect of them the usual rites of religion. And he began to bring them up and called them Kripa and Kripi, in allusion to the fact that he brought them up from motives of pity (Kripa). The son of Gautama having left his former asylum continued his study of the science of arms in right earnest. By his spiritual insight he learnt that his son and daughter were in the palace of Shantanu. He thereupon went to the monarch and represented everything about his lineage. He then taught Kripa the four branches of the science of arms, and various other branches of knowledge, including all their mysteries and recondite details. In a short time Kripa became an eminent professor of the
