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[ 11. 16. Here lies the reason (of my dejection), My father said, 'This wordly existence is such. Here the living beings are the playthings of the results of actions. So enough of dejection.' Then I thought, “When I had been to the Himavat mountain yesterday, my friend, a young Gandharva, Gandharvarati by name said to me having been a great medicinal herb that grew in the cave-'( Herrakundala, this hearsay is indeed right that the power of jewels, incanations and herbs is beyond thought; because the power of this herb is such that by it a big wound of a sword that has cut even the bones is healed, the pain subsiding the very moment by the water in which it is washed.'
I have seen its efficacy. Then I thought to go to the Himav and having taken it, to bring it to S'ri-vijaya. Then having remembered somehow the lore to rise up to the sky, I went to the, Himavat mountain, took the herb, descended from the Hinavat and turned back speedily so that S'ri-vijaya might not come to great harm. I arrived at this grove. I descended here for the purpose of rest on account of
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