Tales from the Hindu Dramatists

"[...]Indra's car. While he is coming back from the realm of Indra, he alights on the hermitage of Maricha. Here he sees a young boy tormenting a lion-whelp. Taking his hand, without knowing him to be his own son, he exclaims:—"If now the touch of but a stranger's child thus sends a thrill of joy through all my limbs, what transports must be awakened in the soul of that blest father from whose loins he sprang!" From the vaunting speeches of the boy, the king gathers that the boy is a scion of the race of Puru. His[...]".