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world; I should not be abandoned; you should not break my order.” He agreed to this. Then the physician drew the magic circle with incantations. The townsmen met. Arahadatta was placed in the circle. Having repeated the incantations, in the presence of all people, [72] he used the medicinal herbs. He tied him motionless with the white cloth. He brought to his mind (repeated ) the lore of the places of goddesses. He(i.e. Arahadatta) began to raise a bustle. He (i.e. S'abara) made him'give out terrible cries; made him wallow on the surface of the earth; made him dash his limbs and sub-limbs; drove away strange illusions; and destroyed that disease, incarnate, put in by miraculous powers, the sum-total of the consequences of actions as it were. Surrounded by one hundred and eight diseases resembling his own form, ( possessing) the body with bad odours, speaking that which cannot be heard,
terrible even to the ears; what then to talk when actually seen ?] and extremely terrible in form on account of ill-smelling dirt of moss and mud. And the people saw it (i.e. the form of the disease ). Then the people
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