ENTERING ANOTHER'S BODY. 19 



pratyavrtau dvav apy ujjayinim prapya pattahastivipattivisannam 

 rajalokam avalokya parapurapravegavidyanubhavanimittam ca raja 

 nijagajagarlra atmanarh nyavegayat, tad yatha, 



bhupah praharike dvije nijagajasyange 'vigad vidyaya, 

 vipro bhupavapur vivega nrpatih kridaguko 'bhut tatah. 

 palligatranivegitatmanam nrpe vyamrgya devya mrtim, 

 viprah kiram ajivayan nijatanurh gri(vi) kramo labdhavan. 

 ittharh vikramarkasya parapurapravegavidya siddha. 



Tawney's translation, " The Prabandhacintamani, or Wishing- 

 stone of Narratives," pp. 9, 10, reads : Then, having heard on a 

 certain occasion, that all accomplishments are useless in comparison 

 with the art of entering the bodies of other creatures,^'* King Vik- 

 rama repaired to the Yogin Bhairavananda, and propitiated him 

 for a long time on the mountain of Cri. But a former servant of 

 his, a certain Brahman, said to the king, " You ought not to receive 

 from the teacher the art of entering other bodies, unless it is given 

 to me at the same time." Having been thus entreated, the king 

 made this request to the teacher, when he was desirous of bestow- 

 ing on him the science, " First bestow the science on this Brahman, 

 then on me." The teacher said, " King, this man is altogether un- 

 worthy of the science." Then he gave him this warning, " You 

 will again and again repent of this request." After the teacher had 

 given this warning, at the earnest entreaty of the king, he bestowed 

 the science on the Brahman. Then both returned to Ujjayinl. 

 When the king reached it, seeing that his courtiers were depressed 

 on account of the death of the state elephant, and also in order 

 to test the science of entering another body, he transferred his soul 

 into the body of his own elephant. 



The occurrence is thus described : 



The king, while the Brahman kept guard, entered by his science 

 the body of his elephant ; 



The Brahman entered the body of the king; then the king became 

 a pet parrot ; 



The king transferred himself into the body of a lizard ; then con- 

 sidering that the queen was likely to die, 



34 For the tradition that Vikrama became an adept in all sorts of magic, 

 see Jiilg, " Mongolische Marchen," p. 217. 



