Narada said: -
1. Being thus addressed by Suparna in excellent words conducive to his benefit and thinking calmly on these words and considering them again and again.
2. The performer of a thousand sacrifices and the lord who, in gifts, was the prince of givers, Yayati, the ruler of all the Kasis said these words.
3. With his eye on his dear friend Tarkshya, as also on the best among the twice-born, Galava, and considering the alms asked for by a devotee as described to him as a highly praiseworthy example.
4. And especially considering that they had come to him passing over the kings born in the solar race.
5. To-day is my birth blessed and my race absolved from sins; to-day is this country, over which I rule, freed from sins by you, O Tarkshya, who are sinless.
6. O friend, I want to tell you however that I am not the same wealthy man that you knew me to be in days of old. O friend, my wealth has been diminished.
7-8. But at the same time I am unable to make your coming here useless, O wanderer of the heavens; nor do I dare frustrate the hopes entertained by the regenerate Rishi; I shall Therefore, give that which will accomplish this purposes of his.
9. A man, who having come to another with a hope and returns with that hope frustrated, consumes the entire race; and O son of Vinata, it is said that nothing is more.
10. Culpable than the saying of a man, in this world ‘‘I have not got it “to a man who comes to him entertaining a hope in him. The man, who is unsuccessful in his suit and whose hopes are frustrated.
11. Slays the sons and grandsons of the man who does not do him good. Therefore, this daughter of mine, who will be perpetuator of four races.
12. This one resembling the daughter of a god and the promoter of every virtue and who is ever solicited by the gods, human beings and Asuras, O Galava,
13. For her beauty do you accept. Rulers of men will surely give you even their kingdom as her dowery.
14. Not to speak of twice four hundred horses each with a black ear; Therefore, do you accept this daughter of mine, Madhavi.
15. The only boon that I ask for, O lord, that I may have a grandson by her.” Having taken that girl with them Galava with the bird.
16. And saying “we shall see you again’^ went away. Saying: - “The means for obtaining the horses has now been gained, the one born of an egg too.
17. Went away, after asking for the permission of Galava, to his own place. And the king of birds having gone away Galava along with that maiden.
18. Began to think about the king who could offer suitable dowery for her and in his mind decided to go to that best among the kings - Haryyashwa, of the race of Ikshwaku.
19. He ruled over Ayodhya, was endued with great prowess and had an army with four divisions and had also in his possession enough of treasures and coins, who was dear to his subjects and to whom the twice born were also dear.
20. Who desirous of the peace of his subjects was practising excellent austerities. The regenerate Rishi Galava, having approached him, Haryyashwa, said to him:
21. “This girl in my possession, O chief among kings, increases a race by bringing forth children, O Haryyashwa; accept her by offering a dowery.
22. I shall describe to you what dowery to offer and hearing that you decide it.’’
Thus ends the one hundred and fifteenth chapter, the story of Galava in the Bhagavatyana of the Udyoga Parva.