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wbich at one place was overspread with skulls of the fractured. In that dreadful crematory, the terminus of corporeal existence, was born to Lier an excellent son, like gold or god in appearance, endowed with good signs and delighter of the cres and minds of people.
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Hcrc cnds, in the life of the great king kurikuula, composed by Sage kunakamara, which is an
omament to the cars of the buly aml which prescuts the richness of the fruit of the desire-giving tree of the five auspicious rites, the first chapter,
describing thc birth of Karakanda.
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1. On the bright day the child was born, there occurred many auspicious signs as if the sun bac dawned, and the faces of the directions hail visibly brightened up. By his birth her misery was forgotten, as if the desire-giving tree hail sprung up in the forest; as if the lords of the mountains hail shot forth tearing the earth; as if the full moon had risen in the sky of its family. No sooner did she take up the born child than she saw a Miitanga ( a man of the lowest caste ) in front of her. He was of a dark counplexion and his eyes were red. He came close to the child and took it up in his hanel like a gollen jar lifted up by an excellent: elephant. Lying in his hand it exbibited the beauty of the jewel shining on the crest of the Serpent-king. When he started for home, taking it away, she raised a cry “ Oh sinful vagabond, whence have you come to take away my son. Not one calainity was crossed over when another, greater than the first, has cropped up: "Then the Khecaru, in the garb of # Matanga, with foldeil hands, said to Parlmcīvati" Do not weep, my lovely sister; listen to my account.
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