third Moon. While the king lived happily with his wives, he
conquered all his enemies, and was content.

One day at the time of the spring festival, the king went to the
garden to play with his three wives. There he looked at the
flower-laden vines with black rows of bees on them; they seemed
like the bow of the god of love, all ready for service. He heard the
songs of nightingales in the trees; they sounded like commands of
Love. And with his wives he drank wine which seemed like Love's
very life-blood.

Then the king playfully pulled the hair of Queen Crescent, and a
lotus-petal fell from her hair into her lap. And the queen was so
delicate that it wounded her, and she screamed and fainted. And
the king was distracted, but when servants sprinkled her with cool
water and fanned her, she gradually recovered consciousness. And
the king took her to the palace and waited upon his dear wife with
a hundred remedies which the physicians brought.

And when the king saw that she was made comfortable for the
night, he went to the palace balcony with his second wife Star.
Now while she slept on the king's breast, the moonbeams found
their way through the window and fell upon her. And she awoke in
a moment, and started up, crying "I am burned!" Then the king
awoke and anxiously asked what the matter was, and he saw great
blisters on her body. When he asked her about it, Queen Star said:
"The moonbeams that fell on me did it." And the king was
distracted when he saw how she wept and suffered. He called the
servants and they made a couch of moist lotus-leaves, and dressed
her wounds with damp sandal-paste.