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CHAPTER XII, 11-20.
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'I am more desirous than any one who is in the earth created by righteousness, that you should now order destruction for the ox.'
15. And Kal-Us uttered his will, with the conviction of superior wisdom, thus : 'It is not certain whether he whose guardian spirit is in the Hôm, the death-dispeller, is himself, or not; and if he be, and be born ?, whether he will become manifest, or not;' and he commanded with severity, thus : 'Go and kill it!'
16. And Sritô spoke thus: 'It is not that I am without strength to kill, because its reprieval by me was owing to its remonstrance, mentioned to me, that a high-priest is to arise ?!
17. So it is declared thus, in another revelation (dênô zagâi) 3, when the Tūrânians were backward in heart, Kai-Us spoke thus : 'Go out to a certain jungle, in which dwell many chiefs of the witches, and they will cut thee up without any striving of heart.'
18. And Srito went up to the jungle, where many witches saw him, who kept their jaws open, and they spoke about the handsome man thus : 'Slay and do not spare !' 19. And compassion having gone out of his heart, he went back to the other jungle and, with his fist, he broke the back of the ox in three places; and the ox, awfully convulsed (skiftò barhamako), kept up an outcry.
20. After the slaughter of the ox, owing to its convulsed state which was heard by him, the
1 T omits and be born.
The misplaced folio, which begins with $ 8, ends here, but it is not quite certain that a few lines of text are not still missing.
8 T has at another time (bên zagâî).'
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