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worldly life, when they proceeded some distance, O Sweet Girl, they saw the third gate, which was difficult to open because of the golden bolt fastening the door-panels and near which there was no space to move owing to terrible
snakes (wriggling there.) 1035. There, my sweet girl, (lit. deer-eyed girl), the king saw an
excellent man, restrained by a number of fetters (in the form)
of terrible snakes and (thus) incapacitated. 1036. And he said, “Oh ! look, this great man longing to enter
Pātāla remains restrained (here) by wicked serpents." 1037. As (soon as) the king said this, good girl, all those serpents
left that young man and ran away in all (lit. ten) directions. 1038. So that excellent youth said, "Good, good ! O King, who
else, except you here, is capable of destroying other's
calamities ? 1039. There is no one more courageous than you in this world,
and no one more helpful to others than you are; nor do I see any one here who is so affectionate without any
reason as you are ! 1040. So what shall I say ? Whatever there is or there will be
belonging to us, freed from calamity in this way,-that all
belongs to you now. !" 1041. And the king said, “You, man of good deeds ! What is it
that cannot be accomplished by you ? So tell me how
you are here”. 1042. And he replied, “Lord of men ! be seated, I will tell you
in details; to whom else can I myslf tell about myself ? 1043-44. There is a great mountain, Malaya by name, the happy
residence of Siddhas, whose slopes are charming with the music of the warble of flocks of different kinds of birds, which has perfumed all its surround ngs with the fragrance of the groves of Lavali, cloves and cardamom, and the broad arsenic stone slabs on which are adorned by the red-lac dye of the feet of Divine dansels.
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