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[ 75. 17. this. The S'abara physician was brought. He said, "O good man, this is the last treatment; so you should henceforth act well. You should do whatever I do; and you should not leave me.” Arahadatta agreed to this. He was diagnosed. The people said, “O merchantson, you should not now do an action worthy of a bad man.” The bag was given to him. Both of them started out of the city and went to another village.
The god then created an illusion. They saw the sky darkened with smoke. They heard the sound of the cracking of bamboos mixed with the sound ‘Alas, Alas!' They observed the flames, terrorising the sight. They found as if the village were on fire. Then having taken a bundle of grass, the god started to extinguish it. He (i. e. Arahadatta ) said, "Oh, how can what is burning, be extinguished with a bundle of grass ?” The god said, “Do you know this much ?" He said, “How am I not to know this ?" The god said, “If you know, why do you with the faggots in the form of body, then enter again the householder's life which has faggots in the form of many bodies, which is burning with anger
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