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425 in his mind' to take revenge. The prostitute said again :
“Oh, my every thing ! I told you what I had to pass through. Now tell me how you could come here. It seems the Yakshadev is pleased with you. If so, the Yakshadev must have given some divine thing as a present to you. Our bodies are different but we have one common breathing soul. Please do not hide anything from me."
Vayarsen said :
“Oh thou dearest to me as life ! Your thinking is quite correct. It is only the grace of Yakshadev that I am here. Without you each day of mine passed like one year. The Yakshadev was pleased by my worship. He therefore gave me one flower. That flower never withers. One gets everlasting youth by smelling it. The body becomes divine. No disease ever comes near. Old age always remains far away. I gave this flower for smelling to one old and hunch-backed woman
