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fondled with various agreeable objects of enjoyment for a very long time. It is heard that beings intent on doing sinful actions suffer very severe miseries in hell. Then why should I do heinous acts ? Sexual intercourse even with one's own wife is prohibited except during ritukāla (the days Immediately following the menses and suitable for conception) by the Šāstras, then, what to talk of sexual enjoyment with a woman who is not one's own wife. If I cannot control my mischievous soul, how can I stop ill--bred Individuals from following the wrong path?” In this way, Gobhadra so admonished her with words full of indifference to worldly enjoyments that the young female began to love him as her own brother. After a moment, she said “Your heart's desire is exceedingly pare. It is an emblem of a great man. It is productive of all worldly blessings All difficult superhuman powers are easily acquired. It is difficult of attainment even for gods and demi-gods. The miseries of disease and sorrow do not disturb a man possessing that virtuous quality. You have obtained the fruition. This birth and this life, resulting in in the difficult acquisition of that virtuous quality of abstaining from sexual intercourse with married or unmarried females other than one's own wife, is a boon and by doing so, you have happily made me a participient in the difficult accomplishment of much-desired Final Emancipation. Gobhadra said, ') good woman! how do you say that I made you a party in the accomplishment of much-desired Finai Emancipation? She replied, "O honourable man! thinking you as my own brother, I narrate the accident, please listen. Gobhadra said "I will certainly listen."
She, then, commenced as follows :
There is an excellent town named Jalandhara well-known in all the three worlds, for its numerous pilst strange events astonishing the people,-a regular mine of expert learned luminaries,-a chief centre of the science of tantric knowledge-and a receptacle of mean tantric arts, in which lived sorceresses clever In the arts of attractive spell, subjection, and invisibleness under the influence of mystic spells, successful in the acquisition of
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