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frghtened and summoned me and said " Go you and leave it on so me lonely and dirty place." So toll me, my Lord, whether I may leave that child in a lonely plaоe or not."
34. Then that Vijaya, the Khattiya, hearing this news from the nurse was similarly frightened, and coming to where Queen Miyá was said to her, “ This is your first offspring, 0 beloved of the gods. If you leave it in a lonely and dirty place, your future offspridg will not survive'. You should, therefore attend secretly on this child in a secret and underground cell with food and drink. In this way your offspring will survive."
35. Then Queen Miyá politely promised Vijaya, the Khattiya to do so and she began to look after that child secretly with food and drink in a secret underground cell. Thus indeed, Goyama the child Miyáputta is experiencing the evil result of his previously done, old and wicked deeds.
36. "Sir, where will the child Miyaputta go being released from here and dying at the time of death? Where will he be born ?!
“Goyama, the child Miyaputta will attain to his maximum age of twenty-six years, and dying at the time of death, shall be born as a lion in the family of lions at the foot of the mountain Veyaddha in the country of Bháraha of this very Jambú continent As a lion he shall be wicked (down to) bold, and shall commit much evil. Dying at the time of death 1. Lit 'will not be permanent,' funt=Skt. furt.
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