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holy words which brought about a change in him and he acquired now, not the worldly life and a lost wife, but something more, his own spirit He renounced everything just then and joined the holy order So you see me here Well, you see, just now my whole past had come up in my mind, and so came out the words, Great Fear'
"At the end of the third quarter came bach monk Joyana, uttering Extreme Fear, and he too, on the requestfrom Abhayakumar, gave the following account of his own experience.
« 'Joyana, the householder was married to a merchant's daughter in the city of Ujjain One day, he started to bring his bride from her parental home He held a sword in his hand As the sun was illready down, he didn't enter into the city but remained outside it. In the neighbourhood, there was a cremation ground, and he heard a pitiful wail coming from that direction Apparently, it signified a lady to be in difficulty Joyana went thither to see a man placed on a sharp sword The lady who stood just beneath revealed to him that the man was her own husband punished by the king for no fault and that she was there to feed the man But as the man was placed too high, she begged ro be helped to reach him It was a very painful sight which Joyanac could no longer bear But he offered his shoulders for the lady's use, on which the lady agreed to stand on condition that the man did not look upward, to which he assented.
" 'Now the lady was on the man's shoulders Very: soon, he heard her chewing something and then few pieces of meat rolled down his own body He got terrified and looked up to see the devil cutting pieces of flesh from the poor man's body with a sharp knife and devouring them with the greatest relish At once, he dropped her and rushed towards the city, but the devil pursued him and caught him just near the city portal, cutting a big lump of flesh from his thigh Joyana fell down Soon a crowd.
