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"Great Fear !"
The disciples of Suhasti, the Preceptor, were administering to him in turn. When the last but one part of the night began, Muni Joyan came. Seeing the divine necklace around the neck of his Guru, he spoke out: "Very great fear, Very great fear !"
Abhaya asked the reason from him also. Muni Joyan, thereupon said:
"I was married to one daughter of a merchant of Ujjayinee. I went to fetch her once from her parents' house. When I reached the outskirts of the city, it was night andso, not thinking is proper to enter the city at night, I made a night halt in a secluded place. It was a cemetery. I had a sword with me for self defence.
During the night, I heard that a woman was weeping. When I went in search of the facts, I found that one man was hang
