________________ 73 Translation Ho replied; " My procoptor has given me # Vidya (or 'spell") and I have already) rocited it, but without a helper 1 do not succeed in acco omplishing it and getting my desired object. (366) "( Therefore ), ob, you, magnanimous one ! if you will, anyhow, become my helper to-day, I will be able to fulfil my. (desired) object, by being successful in accomplishing the spell. " (367) Then on a certain night, that'sadhaka ' (or accomplisher), with the help of the prince, had his spell accomplished as if in sport. (368) (Then) that 'sadhaka', for returning the ob ligation, gave the prince two medicinal herbs and spoke these words: (369). "One (of these two herbs ) enables a person to cross safely through water (jalatarini'), and in the same way, the other evades the weapons of the enemy('parasathhanivarini'); these medici. nal herbs, (therefore), should be kept (carefully) furnishing them with covers made up of 'three metals' (viz. gold, silver and copper). (370). (Then) when that Vidyasadhaka, accompanied by the prince, went to the declivity of the mountain, he was thus spoken to by the mineralogist: (371)
