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CHAPTER FOUR a big tree. They attack him so that their hoods burst; they bite him so that their fangs are broken ! When these were hanging like ropes, their poison ejected, he quickly produced sharp-toothed mice. The mice dug into the Master's body with nails, teeth, mouths, and paws and making water on those places repeatedly, threw acid on the wounds.
These also proving useless, as if turned into a ghoul, angrily he created an elephant with a club in the form of his upraised tusk. He ran forward, bending the earth, as it were, by his steps, knocking the stars from the sky, as it were, with his uplifted trunk. The elephant seized the Blessed One with the end of his trunk hard to resist and tossed him high up in the air. Thinking, “ He, shattered, has gone to pieces,” pitiless, he received him falling from the air, raising his tusks. When he had fallen, he wounded him again and again by blows with his tusks and sparks flew up from the diamond-hard breast (of the Lord). When the rogue-elephant was not able to do anything, the god created a female elephant like a female enemy. She split the Blessed One with tusks and the whole trunk and sprinkled him at will with body-water like poison.
The strength of the cow-elephant being reduced to dust, the basest of gods made a piśāca with the huge teeth of a crocodile. The cavity of his mouth, wide and long, filled with blazing flames, was terrifying as a blazing fire-pit. His uplifted arms were like the pillars of the gate to Yama's house and his legs and thighs were like tall palm trees. Giving a loud burst of laughter, hissing, with thundering cries of “ Kila ! Kila !” clothed in leather and carrying a knife, he ran at the Blessed One. When he had been extinguished like a lamp whose oil has given out, inflamed by anger, the pitiless (god) quickly made a tiger. Cleaving the earth, as it were, with the blows of his massive tail; making heaven and earth cry, as it were, with the echoes of his roars, the tiger went to work on the Lord of the World deliberately with teeth hard as diamonds and nails that resembled spear-points.
When the tiger had reached a colorless state, like a tree
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