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The enemy, disguised as a terrifying demon, abandoned his horse in the forest filled with blooming trees. ||5||
The Vetala, with a garland of one hundred pearls adorning his chest, a fearsome serpent tied around his waist, possessing white, sparse, long teeth, clad in the finest tiger skin, with a face like the cave of Mount Mandara, his cheeks adorned with human fat, terrifying with teeth like the moon, his hair like flames of fire, dark like a cloud and black like a blue lotus, such a Vetala, assuming the form of a celestial being, said to him, "You abducted my fair wife, who was as beautiful as a Champa flower, in your previous life. Now, the fierce Yama is angry with you. Where will you go now, being alive?" Then, the son of Kubera, remembering in his mind, "I have been brought here by my own actions. Now, the lotus feet of the Jina, who saves from the ocean of existence, are my only refuge." Then, the Yaksha named Jagpala, who had learned the news from the people and understood the suffering of the wise through his knowledge of the stages of existence, arrived there and said, "My young master has been taken away by a horse."