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ethereal vestments of the heavenly regions once
more.
The four animals, the Lion, the Monkey, the Pig and the Mongoose, too, had been born in the bhogabhumi, because of their delight at the gift of food to the Saints by Bajrajangha, and reincarnated in the second heaven on the termination of their lives in that land.
6. Sridhara Deva Bajrajangha is now again in one of the higher heavens. He is this time called Sridhara.
Srimati has now cast off the female form. She is re-born in the same heaven as Sridhara, not as a devangnā, but as a deva. This is due to Right Faith, for which Svayambuddha must be thanked !
The four companions of their earlier life, that is to say, Mativara, the minister, Akamapana, the generalissimo, Ananada, the master of ceremonies, and Dhana Mitra, the financier, are all now in one of the superheavens (called graiveyikas), because of their austerities which they had performed after the sudden death of Bajrajangha and Srimati.
Once more the two loving souls find themselves in surroundings that are obtained only by the most fortunate among men, and that are to
