Brewer's: Nala

a legendary king of India, whose love for Damayanti and subsequent misfortunes have supplied subjects for numerous poems. Dean Milman has translated into English the episode from the Mahâbhârata, and W. Yates the famous Sanskrit poem called Nalodaya.

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