Tsarevich Kandarpaketu, the son of Tsar Chintamani, sees an unknown girl in a dream and falls passionately into her. Together with his friend Makaranda, he goes to her search. One night, being in the vicinity of the Vindhya mountains, he accidentally overhears the conversation of two birds. One of them, the lane, reproaches the other, his beloved parrot, for a long absence and expresses the suspicion that he cheated on her with another lane, with whom he now returned to the forest. The parrot explains that he went to the city of Pataliputra, where King Shringarasekhara, wishing to marry his daughter to Vasavadatta, arranged for her svayamvara, a wedding ceremony for the bride’s groom’s choice. On svayamvara there were a lot of royal seekers, but Vasavadatta rejected them all. The fact is that on the eve of the Svayamvary she also saw in the dream of the beautiful Tsarevich, who immediately fell in love and only decided to marry him. When she learned that the name of this
prince was Kandarpaketu, she sent his home lair Tamalik to him. Wanting to help Tamalika in her difficult task, the parrot flew with her to the mountains of Vindhya. Hearing the story of the parrot, Kandarpaket interferes with the conversation of birds, gets acquainted with Tamalika, and she gives him the oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. that they call this prince Kandarpaketu, she sent his home lair Tamaliku to him. Wanting to help Tamalika in her difficult task, the parrot flew with her to the mountains of Vindhya. Hearing the story of the parrot, Kandarpaket interferes with the conversation of birds, gets acquainted with Tamalika,
and she sends him an oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. that they call this tsarevich Kandarpaketu, she sent his home lair Tamalik to him. Wanting to help Tamalika in her difficult task, the parrot flew with her to the mountains of Vindhya. Hearing the story of the parrot, Kandarpaket interferes with the conversation of birds, gets acquainted with Tamalika, and she gives him the oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. Wanting to help Tamalika in her difficult task, the parrot flew with her to the mountains of Vindhya. Hearing the story of the parrot, Kandarpaket interferes with the conversation of birds, gets acquainted with Tamalika, and she sends him an oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. Wanting to help Tamalika in her difficult task, the parrot flew with her to the mountains of Vindhya. Hearing the story of the parrot, Kandarpaket interferes with the conversation of birds, gets acquainted with Tamalika, and she sends him an oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. and she sends him an oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night. and she sends him an oral message of Vasavadatta, in which the princess asks him to meet her as soon as possible. Kandarpaketu and Makaranda go to Pataliputra and enter the palace of Vasavadatta. There they will learn that King Sringarasekhara, without regard for the daughter’s desire, certainly wants to extradite her as the king of the air spirits – vidyadharas. Then Kandarpaketu decides to flee with Vasavadatta, and the magic horse of Manojiva takes them from Pataliputra back to the mountains of Vindhya, where the lovers spend the night.
Waking up at dawn, Kandarpaketu, to her horror, discovers that Vasavadatta has disappeared. After long fruitless searches Kandarpaketu comes to the shore of the ocean and desperately wants to rush into his waters. At the last moment, a divine voice keeps him from suicide, promising him an early meeting with his beloved. For several months Kandarpaketu wanders along the coastal forests, supporting life with fruits and roots, until one day, at the beginning of autumn, he encounters a stone statue, similar to his beloved one. In love anguish Kandarpaketu touches the statue with his hand, and it becomes alive to Vasavadatta.
To inquire about the Kandarpaketu, Vasavadatta says that on the morning of their separation she went to collect the fruit of trees for them to eat. Deepening into the forest, she unexpectedly met with the camp that was stationed, and behind it chased his leader. But immediately there was another army – the mountaineers-kirats, and his leader, too, the herd to pursue Vasavadattu. Both the commander, and, after them, their warriors, for the sake of possession of Vasavadatta, entered the battle and completely exterminated each other. However, even in the course of the battle, they ruthlessly devastated the hermitage nearby, and the holy head of this monastery, finding Vasavadatta guilty of what happened, cursed her, turning it into a stone statue. The term of the curse was to end – as it did in fact, – when the sculpture touches the future husband of the princess.
After a long-awaited and happy meeting Kandarpaketu and Vasavadatta are sent to the capital of the Kandarpaketu kingdom. There they are already waiting for Makaranda, and both the king-father, Chintamani and Shringarasekhara, solemnly celebrate the wedding of his son and daughter, now forever rid of all troubles and disasters.
