________________ 22 Siri Sirivalakaha she was doing so,' the pot on her head foll down and was broken into hundred pieces. Then at once, Avimrus'yakari spoke : " Your son has gone to destruction (i. e. death ) like this your pot." Vimrus' yakari said: " No, no, brother ! do not speak like this, her son has already come to her house "; and he, then, said to the old woman : " Oh you, good old lady'! go home and see the face of your son." Then, she, being spoken thus, went towards her house as if become alive again, giving hundreds of blessings to Vimras' yakari; and there she found that her son had come home. There she was bowed down to by her son, and she also give him her blessings and told" hini aboat'the incident of the astrologer (Vimrus' yakari'. Then with the permission of her son, she gave a pair of clothes and a number of rupees to Vimirus'yakari as a present. And Avimrus'yakari greatly dejected at heart thought in his mind thus: "Verily, I am not well taught by the preceptor; otherwise how is it that I cannot know this if he does it ? " Then having performed the work of the preceptor, both of them came before the preceptor. There Vimrus'yakari at the very sight of the preceptor bent down his head, folded his hands, and fell at the feet
