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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
While she was meditating upon beating a retreat,
the king said „We have encompassed our object
very smoothly. If you will choose to accompany us
to our palace and there remain as one of our
family, we will bestow upon you plenteously the
bodies of those villains who betake themselves to
murder and other crimes. So long as this body
endures, thoughts and other pains incidental to it
will not bid adieu to it. Therefore you can devote
yourself to Nishta (meditation) after quenching the
fire in your stomach with the victuals supplied to
you in the form of the bodies of the vicious. Thus
shall you act in this world with true love.‟
Thereupon the lady with great exultation walked
along with the leonine King and his minister to
their golden palace when the sun rose. In six days
after their arrival, three thousand wretches were
handed over to her by the King. Discarding during
nights the resplendent form of Lakshmi with
which she shone during the day in that palace, she
transformed herself into a Rakshasa woman and
piled upon her shoulders the ignorant suicides.
Then having taken leave of the King and his
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