________________ 46 Siri Sirivalakaha and again (in regular successive order) and (hence also) by the (observance of) eighty one Ayambila fasts this (vow of the Ayambila Oʻli Penanoe) becomes complete. (219) : "While practising this (Ayambila penance), The Nine Dignities should be meditated upon in the mind; and when the penance is over, one should perform the concluding festival rujjamanam ') also. (220) "To a man who practises this good 'penance with a pure mental condition, all the prosperities of gods, demons and excellent human beings, are not difficult to be obtained. (221) . "When this (penance) is practised formidable (lit. great) diseases such as the wicked leprosy, consumption, fever and fistula (bha gandara ') etc, do not come to a person) and if they have come to him before (he practised the penanoe), they are (at once) destroyed. (222) .. " On acconnt of (the power of) this peKance, slavery, 'servitude, having no art for having impaired or defective organs of sense) misfortune, blindness, a degraded body, and a degraded family--these things) do not come (to a person). (223) . " (Also by the power of this penance) mis
