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wonderful power that those who precipitate themselves from it, get whatever they had been meditating upon before. Acoording to his direction, I started for that rock and reached it on the third day. I ascended it and jumped down from it, but & Vidyadhara intercepted me in the air. In order to dissuade me from my design, he related the
Story of a married couple. An extremely ugly woman loved her husband tenderly, bnt he could not endure her. Hearing of this wonderful rock, he precipitated himself from it in order never to meet his wife again. She followed his example desiring to be united with him in her next birth. It is evident that neither could meet with his or her desire. 362, 16.
He then inquired when and where my wife had met with that accident, and on learning that it had occurred three days ago at a distance of ten yojanas, he assured me that she certainly was still alive. For their king, Cakrasena, •had been exerting himself for twelve months to acquire a powerful spell; he had promised security to all living beings within 48 yojanas for seven days, and had given strict order to his Vidyādharas to prevent the killing of any creature. They had, no doubt, saved VilásavatP and would give him information about her. 364, 8.
The next morning we visited Cakrasena who had just acquired the spell he had werked for sở long. While we were talking together, two young Vidyādharas reported that they had rescued a beautiful woman whom a huge serpent was on the point of swallowing. I had no doubt that she must he Vilānavati, and, indeed, I recognized my wife in the woman saved by the Vidyadharas. We took leave of Cakrasena who taught me the spell Ajitabalā and the way how to practise it. 366, 12. 'For that purpose I needed an assistant. Atäthat juncture a man dressed as a Tāpasa came and embraced me. I recognized him as my lost friend Vasubhūti. He '1 me that when our ship foundered, he had got upon a plank 11-34 rached the coast of Malaya ; there he had met a Tāpasa tion by mteht him to their hermitage. After a few days through
