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ted the mind like a Goddess of Prosperity and Beauty of the under-world, or for Rati,-one of the wives of Kāma, or a divine lemale, and who held toy-lotuses in her charming hands, and becoming love-lorn by the lust of sexual love, we tried to approach the female Yaksa. As soon as she saw us coming towards her, she at once entered a round fire-pit dreadful with a highly illuminating fierce flame. As it wounded by a heavy hammer, and with our faces darkened by remorse, we began to think within ourselves, “Shall we now go back? or should we sacrifice our bodies in the fire-pit full of the loveliness of the contact of her body, like so many butterflies? This terrible fire will burn out our bodies only within a moment, and the question of meeting the female Yakşa is full of doubts. But if we are kept alive, we will again acquire wealth and happiness."
While we were thus meditating within ourselves, a Ksatrapala,-a tutelary deity of the fields,-with a very heavy body like a huge elephant issuing from a bower of creepers in a thicket, sbaking the earth with bis bulky heavy body, deafening the directions by the mass of echo arising by repeatedly striking the ground, terrifying on account of the dark envelope of radiance of his armlets made from the horns of a wild buffalo as dark as lanp-black, holding a large skull in his hand, appearing as if he were the creator of the dark-night of the God of Death, emit ting an unpleasant mass of smoke difficult to look at, from his mouth, and with the bunch of his hair tied with terrible black snakes making a fierce hissing sound, came at once to the spot, and looking at us with his eyes red-shot with violent anger, he said, "O vile people ! You have entirely left aside your virtuous conduct. You are frightened even by the noise of my body; could you not find out any otber place for your consolation that you thought of coming here? Suffer now the evil consequences of your immodest behaviour.” With these words, be caught hold of us who were trenibling with fear like withcred leaves set in motion hy winds, and seizing us suddenly hy the feet like a young lamb, he hurled us with such tremendous force that we fell in front of the door of the TUTTENE Valayāmukha cave.
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