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ever offence I may have committed by evil intention on account of my eyes having been distracted by the darkness of false illasions. O Narasimha ! I am like your pupil, your domestic, your debtor, or like your slave. Now, order me what I can do The king said:-O good man ! You narrate your account to me for my satisfaction when you acquire the wealth of your own kingdom." Saying "Well I shall do it" Ghorasiva took his seat in the celestial car along with the vidhädharas, and he immediately reached the desired region.
Then, King Narasipha, thinking himself, as if he, had acquired the royal wealth of the three worlds, as if he gained the accumulated mass of all bis meritorious deeds, and thinking himself as if he bad become purified by visiting all praise-wor. thy sacred places of pilgrimage, went into his own palace with a sword in his hand. Lying down in his comfortable bed, the king had sleep for some time.
During early-morning, Deen Campakamālā-impeding the progress of Cakravāka birds following the tinkling noise of her jewelled anklets-lovely with excellent bodice, and ornaments for the neck, and braid of hair, and surrounded by Kubjā, Vāmani Pulindi, and other maid-servants who bad joyfully accompanied her, came there. On seeing the limbs of King, lying a little away from the bed on account of sound sleep, the queen said ;“ Ah I the king has been lying perfectly free from care, as if he had just recently finished with the marriage-celebration of his son, as if he had enemies, as if he had inexhaustibly Increased his wealth, or as if he had mastered all the $āstras." After a little while, with the melodious sound of auspicious morning music, and with the spreading of light in all directions, a bard said :-O good king I Like you, the Sun after having crossed the unfathomable ocean of faults of night, having abandoned Ignora. nce-darkness, having brought his family into prominence by the atrength of his own power, having travelled over burial grounds and other difficolt paths, and having filled in all the directions with immense light or power coming out from his own body
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