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At last, one day, with a firm, determination they went in the Sonthern Direction. Having gone a long distance they reached a terrible slaughtering place, A man was hanging on gallows and he was impatiently making piteous cries of agony. There were rotten cadavers of numerous persons lying cattered here and there. On being quesioned, the man on the gallows narra. ted all the hardships experienced by himself, He was a seafaring merchant. One day his boat was suddenly destroyed and he was drifted to this same island. The female deity of the island took him to her palace, and he was happily amusing himself there, enjoying sensual pleasures with her. But, after all he was an ordinary human being, How can any one act strictly in accordance with the fanciful whims of some voluptuous goddesses at all periods of time ? One day when he was not inclined to act according to her whims, she angrily took him to the gallows and kept him hanging there. She invariably reduced to such a state, any individual who happens to come to this island
On hearing this account, both the brothers began to tremble with fear and they asked him the easiest way of escaping from the island. The man on the gallows said: "In the Eastern Direction there is a temple of an Yakşa (a kind of deity) named Sailaka. The deity is to be found in the form of a horse. He becomes visible on the eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and the thirtieth day of each month and loudly declares:-"Whom can I protect? Whom can I save ?” You go to the temple on the fourteenth day of the month, and worship the yaksa, If he asks you, you say 'Save us' 'Protect us'
Both the brothers did whatever the man on the gallows ad. vised them to do. The Yaksa told him:-will make you sit on my back as a horse, and I will take across the Lavaņa Samudra. The goddess will follow you and she will persistently try to entice you by amorous pranks, and she will terrify you but you should never yield to her entreaties and you should not look at her. Because, so long as you are on my back, no one will have
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