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Informed the king” That wicked wretch bas killed kings of Kalliga. Vanga, Anga, Pancāla and kings of other countries desirous of acquisition by magic spell or whom has he not cheated by showing wond'ers through fraudulent misbehaviour like frauduleut manifestation of attentions, magic, and other tricks ? He has not been deceived by any one. Besides, his character has not become known to any body. You have done both. Ah! your pure conscience ! I am greatly delighted by your uncomm. only adventurous nice deeds. Now let me know about any boon aspired by you, so that I may immediately fulfil your wishes." The king, with his two open hands held together bollowed, and ralsed to the forehesd ( as a reverential salutation ), and with his head bent low, said, “O goddess ! What else is a more auspicious boon than your sanctifying presence! The goddess replied, O king ! you do not request for a boon like an ordlaary being, but all your desires will be fulfilled by my supernatural powere". On hearing these words, the king bowed down respecto fully before her with extreme devotion, and she instantly disappeared like the wealth of an unfortunate individual. With the disappearance out of sight of such a wonderfully handsome form of the goddess, the king quite anxiously thought:-Ah! Is this a dream or an illusion or is it a cunning trick of the wicked Kapālika hermit ? Or, is it mental confusion or is it in every way true ? When the king was thus hesitating, cherishing doubt regarding this phenomenon; a voice from the sky prevented him, saying, "O king I do not entertain doubt.
Then, as if, intoxicated or in a swoon, beaten severely by a club, rendered motionless by a great giant, plundered as it of all his valuable articles, renderd submissive, as if by a great planet in the form of seperation from bis dear relatives, remainIng motionless for a moment with his vitalily lost as if by a draught of an injurious drug, regaining consciousness by the consoling influence of cool winds on his body, slowly openlog his eyes, and sighing deeply with a very pitiable face on account of agitation over his entire body caused by shame, Ghoragiva began to gaze at the king. The king, also, out of compassion at his
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