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farewell to the petty chiefs and other petty officials, the king sat in private consultation with his high officials, and narrating the incident of the night, the king asked Buddhisara and his other minsters thus-"O Ministers! You all know the sciences of mystic spells and incantations, you adore people who have accomplished various arts and sciences, and using your intellect in all affairs, you show the ways of dealing in secret matters. Now, you show me, how I can cross the ocean of my anxieties about the acquisition of a son. The ministers, then thinking for a while what is suitable and what is not, said:-Your effort is in the right direction. We were willing to inform you in the beginning but it is good, that you yourself have instructed us now about it. However, you ask us a remedy for it. What can we say in this matter? What remedy can we show and what reply can be given in a subject which is within the range of superhuman knowledge ? Persons like ourselves, can draw out Inferences in matters which are accessible by form, signs, movements, and talk, but we are not competent in such matters; however, we know this much that people can acquire sons and other objects in places suitable to their individual Karmas even without applying remedies." The king smilingly sald; "What is Improbable in it, if they are produced every moment like the vault of the sky, even with the absence, of the producer and the produced ! Admitting therefore the supreme influence of Karmas, do not accept a one-sided view, because Diavya cou Substanice, Kșetra Place, Kāla a Time, are the fundamental causes in the accomplishment of a work.
Then, bringing their folded hands in front of their fore. heads, Buddhisāra and other ministers said. " Whatever you say is quite true, O Lord | 'if such be the thing, please listen
Ghorasiva
Hear, there is a hermit named Ghorasiya tafara who is clever in the knowledge of propitiating Goddess Durgā, who wears a rosary of skulls; who 19 skilled in subduing ghosts; who
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