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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
occurred in former times between the once Ahalya
and Indra 44 which the present couple of the same
name had heard, the living couple began to have
criminal intimacy with one another. Like two
lovers who come in contact after long parting, she
passed some days alone in the enjoyment of the
company of her paramour. The King s subjects
who were eye witnesses to this scandalous affair
reported it to the just King. On hearing which, he
waxed exceedingly wroth and caused the stray
couple to be sunk into deep waters. Finding that
this did not affect them in the least, he caused them
to be subjected to many ordeals, such as trampling
them with rutting elephants of fierce tusks, bathing
them in flames of fire and beating them with
hammers, etc. In spite of the infliction of all
tortures, they did not evince the least symptoms of
pain but merely laughed at them, eying one
another with one-made mind as they sat opposite.
44 It may be remembered that, in Ramayana, Rama revives Ahalya from
the state of stone to which she was cursed by her husband Gautama.
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