Next morning he rode off on his fleet horse, and arriving on the borders of an immense forest he saw a number of rakshasi[FN#438] roaming about, he went aside and shot with his arrows some deer and rhinoceroses and then approaching the rakshasis called out, “O auntie dear, your nephew is here.”  A huge rakshasi strode towards him and said, “O. you are the youth with the moon on your forehead and stars on the palms of your hands.  We were all expecting you, but as you have called me aunt, I will not eat you.  What is it you want?  Have you brought anything for me to eat?” The youth gave her the game he had killed, and she began devouring it.  After swallowing all the carcases she said, “Well, what do you want?” He answered, “I want some kataki flowers for my sister.”  She told him it would be very difficult for him to get them, as they were guarded by seven hundred rakshasas, but if he was determined to attempt it, he had better first go to his uncle on the north side of the Jungle.  He goes, and greets the rakshasa, calling him uncle, and having regaled him with deer and rhinoceroses as he had done his “aunt,” the rakshasa tells him that in order to obtain the flower he must go through an impenetrable forest of kachiri,[FN#439] and say to it “O mother kachiri, make way for me, else I perish,” upon which a passage will be opened for him.  Next he will come to the ocean, which he must petition in the same terms, and it would make a way for him.  After crossing the ocean he’ll come to the gardens where the kataki blooms.  The forest opens a passage for the youth, and the ocean stands up like two walls on either side of him, so that he passes over dryshod.[FN#440] He enters the gardens and finds himself in a grand palace which appeared unoccupied.  In one of the apartments he sees a young damsel of more than earthly beauty asleep on a golden bed, and going near discovers a stick of gold lying near her head and a stick of silver near her feet.  Taking them in his hand, by accident the gold stick fell upon the feet of the sleeping beauty, when she instantly awoke, and told him she knew that he was the youth with the moon on his forehead and stars on the palms of his hands; that the seven hundred rakshasas who guarded the kataki flowers were then out hunting, but would return by sundown, and should they find him they’d eat him.  A rakshasi had brought her from her father’s palace, and is so fond of her that she will not allow her to return home.  By means of the gold and silver sticks the rakshasi kills her when she goes off in the morning, and by means of them also she is revived when she comes back in the evening.  He had better flee and save his life.  But the youth told her he would not go away without the kataki flower, moreover, that he would take her also with him.  They spent the day in walking about the gardens, and when it was drawing near the time for the return of the rakshasas, the youth concealed himself under a great heap of the kataki flower which was in one of the rooms, having