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Tales from Indian Mythology.
I may then rejoin you.” He sprinkled water on her and she was immediately transformed into a formless boulder.
Leaving her there to the fury of the elements and to the frolics of the hermit boys, he abandoned the ashram and retired into the Himalayas, a broken man. Now invisible and secure in the amorphous obscurity of a stone and immune to the envious eyes, Ahalya must have spent all her time in prayer and penance, for many millenniums.
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