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he caught her with the idea that she was a demoness. He made the guards conscious, saying, “Oh, do not get alarmed !” They got up. [83] She was tied. The king was informed. He, also thinking that a demoness can not be won over by pleasing waye, made her eat her own flesh; was defiled by impure matter; was maltreated by various iusults; was discarded angrily and then was banished. Not getting an excess in villages etc. she wandered about in the forest and was killed by a lion terrible in form as if by the consequence of the actions of her previous birth. She was born in the hell-world called Dhūma prabhā and became a hell-dweller with the life of seventeen Sagaropamas.
Revered Dharana, wandering about with proper constraint, with the happy consequences of his actions increasing, observed fasts taking to the observance of meeting death by concentration in a position motionless like a tree. He died after some ti ne and was born a Vaimānika god with the li e of twenty-one Sägaropamas in the Vimana-heaven by name Chandrakanta in the heavenly world by name Arana.
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