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Malaya meditated on God Arihant. She remembered the Great Mantra (Navkar Mantra). Then she poked her hand inside the earthen pot and took out the cobra.
The cobra brought out from its mouth Lakshmipunj Necklace and placed it round the neck of Malaya. Then it licked the tilak of her forehead. So Malaya got back her original female from. The cobra made a shade over her head by spreading wide its fanas. All were shell bound by feeling this wonderful right. shout like 'Victory to God snake, Viktory to Goddess snake' rent the air. The onlookers were discussing amongst themselves :
'This cobra is no ordinary cobra. This woman is no ordinary woman. This is some god in the form of a snage' and some goddess is in the form of a the king had punished her, she would reduced the city to ashes. The minister-inchief saved the whole city by his intelligence.'
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