'Damayanti', 1920. Damayanti, a character in a love story in the Vana Parva book of the Mahabharata, was a princess of such beauty even the Gods admired her. She fell in love with Nala after hearing of his virtues from a golden swan. From "Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists", by The Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1920]

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