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entire wealth earned by my father and my grand-father, in constantly giving her costly ornaments, valuable garments, eatables, flowers, and perfumes. When however, Apangasènā knew that I had become extremely poor, she abruptly left me with many insults, like a succulent colouring plant deprived of its juice, like a vessel of an intoxicating drink after the contained intoxicating drink has been drunk off, or like a meagre residue of offal remaining after the completion of a meal.
I then left Anangasonā's residence and went to my own house. Becoming greatly distressed, on seeing my house full of innumerable pits and holes, its former grandeur lost and appearing terrific like a vast burning ground, I went to a foreign country and wandering a number of days, I at last reached a deserted village. There, I saw a small bundle of ashes lying on the ground. I picked it up and on opening the various knots securely fastened with sealing wax, I found a written 19: Bhoja-patra,-Leal of a Birch Tree,-and on reading the writings out of curiosity, I oame to know the account of a hidden treasure of ten million jewels with the name of the village, surrounding direction, and other tokens of the treasure; and greatly rejoiced, I secretly ooncealed the written leaf in every way Gving towards the direction described in the leaf, I reached the village in a short time. I examined the place of the hidilen treasure and was immensely pleased when all the signs tallied with the description on the leaf Then, on an excellent night after giving an oblation of foorl in various lirections, I commencel to dig out the place of the hidden treasure and as soon as I had not even dug out one hand deep, a nunı ber of huge snakes, formidable with the inflation of their very strong hoods, moving their unsteady tongues to and fro like the flash of a lightning, pouring out poisonous emanations like sparks of fire produced by the exuled winil taken hy the mouth, striking the ground with thc juass of their tails, and moving fiercely their redd cyes shining brightly like the flame of a lamp, instantly inade their appearance and biting me severoly, they violently tore up my whole budy.
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