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10. 'Did there not depart, together with Indra, another great deity?'
29. "That woman does not die without her wish' : cp. V.P., CCIX.8 ( also 10,12,13, etc. as a burden in a long stotra praising the pativrata) 'sã na mộtyumukham yāti evar yā strī pativratā' etc.; 28 originally was perhaps a marginal gloss, which crept into the text in a wrong place : apparently, it ought to stand after 29. Cp. V.P. CCVIII.30 ‘na vyādhir na jarā mrtyus tasmin rājani śāsati', which refers to Mithi, the krtayuga-shape of existence of Janaka, and the husband of Rūpāvati.
31. Cp. BeFi XIX.5 ‘aśvamedhakaraḥ sadā”. Chapter XVII
The XVIIth chapter of BeFi contains a list of the streets in Yama's world. Our text here speaks of the re-births of the sinners, which had already been dealt with in the XIIIth adhyāya. The statements of Si are throughout arbitrary and apparently independent of the parallel passage of BeFi (XVII.28ff.).
10-11. Cp. Ab. V.17. Chapter XVIII
As to the contents of BeFi XVIII and XIX, see above under XVI. What is told in our Si, corresponds to the contents of the last ślokas of BeFi XIX, where, however, the śravanaphala is spoken by Vaišampāyana.
19. The colophon, which is written in a mixture of Saṁskrta and vernacular, has been translated on p. 3, q.v. ( bhādrava (Gu., m.) = the month Bhādrapada; vadi ( Gu. vada, vadi f. ) = Samskrta vadyapakşa; saṁ= abbreviation of saṁvata, = Samskệta samvatsara (Gu., Hi.)).
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