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the Saint; and must have been imparted by the Saint to Kanha Vasudeva; it is albeit not known to me whether Kanha Vasudeva will kill me through some prince.” So cogitating he, being frightened [ 4 ] set out from his house. • He came just in the front of Kanha Vāsudeva, entering the city of Baravai, neither minding directions nor cross-directions. Then that Brahmana Somila, on beholding all of a sudden, Kanha Vāsudeva and as he stood he got frightened [4] and died loosing hold over his standing posture, and fell with a thud on the ground with all his limbs.
Then Kanha Vsudeva saw Brāhmana Somila and said thus “ Here indeed, Beloved of Gods, is this Brahmana Somila, desirous of the undesirable (until] devoid of shame and fortune by whom my younger brother, born of the same mother, Friar Gayasukumála was deprived of his life unseasonably.” So saying he got Brahmana Somila dragged by Chandalas, got the ground sprinkled with water. Then he went towards his own home and entered it.
“Verily, thus Jambū, [etc. until] this is the matter of the eighth lesson of the third
