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“Let we go." Both of them, ther, went to the banks of the Ganges."
Fore-seeing an accident, and withcut thinking about the essential meaning of events, Vidyasiddha very swiftly removed the divine preservative armlet, and giving it to Gobharia he said “Take proper care of this armlet during the time that I do prāņāyāma (suspension of breath ) in the current of the waters of the Bhāgirathi (the Ganges) only for a muhūrta i forty-eight minutes ) ”. “Saying very good, I shall do it' Gobhadra sat there taking good care of the armlet. Vidyāsiddha then entered the water-current. On not finding i idyāsiddha there after the lapse of a muhurta, Gobhadra became greatly be wildered; and he began to look about here and there in all directions and it became Sunset time while making due inquiries every where. At that time red-coloured rays resembling soft coral began to spread, pairs of ruddy geese began to be agaitated. Gobhadra informed some swimmers in the Ganges thus-o good men ! a very handsome excellent man has entered the waters of the Ganges here, but now I cannot definitely understand what has become with him whether he is covered by high unfathomable rows of waves or whether he has been devoured by an alligator or some other wicked aquail: animal or whether he has been drowned in some dan. gerous heap of mud. Therefore, having pity on my life grieved at separation from him, you immediately enter the river and make careful inquiries for that very fortunate man, lest that exce llent dinakara-magnanimous luminary-may not be, lost and the divine river may not be disgraced by a blemish throughout her existence". When thus requested by Gobhadra, swimmers who lly intent on compassion, went in all directions and with a deep dive in the waters of the river they tried to make a search for him. After failing in their attempts to get a vestige anywhere by stirring up water with very energetically extended arms at various places, the swimmers returned to Gobhadra, and informed him about their failure to get any vestige whatsoever. Tien struck as is by a heavy mallet, Gobhadra becoming extremely bewildered by an unbearable force of sorrow, thout:-“Ah! Why
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