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the hermit in his house, but Kesar was sent to rescue him. When 
they had told their tale to Kesar, the latter advised them errone- 
ously to go to the land of the Nagas and devour its inhabitants. 
This was a slip of the tongue, for he had intended to send them 
to the land of the devil. When the misery of the Nagas became 
very great, they were advised by their sorcerers to send two of 
their ladies, Daryyi yang mdzexma, and Dargyi mthong mdzesma, to 
Kesar, to ask him to come to their assistance. These two Nagini 
them for some time. Kesar agreed to that, saying that ’aBruguma 
would probably repent her promise. ‘hen ’aBruguma was ordered 
0 fetch Kesar’s horse from the cold (or straight) valley. But 
the horse behaved awkwardly and would not come. By throw- 
ing a stone at it with a sling, she succeeded after all in mounting 
it. But then the horse went off in the most extraordinary way, 
carrying her up to the sky, and then dragging her along moun- 
tain ridges, ’a Bruguma spending most of the time below the belly 
of the horse, with the result that, when they «arrived after all in 
the stable, the back of the horse was sore. ‘I’ 
along with him on his expedition! Then ’a/iruguma sang a song 
in which Kesar is praised as a being from whom light, dew, and 
flowers proceed, per 
a ee leaving as a young man, he would return as an old 
ssa Sar was led by a fox to the land of the Nagas. He 
punished the two Mon-devils and sent them to the land of the 
devil to eat there all the poisonons snakes. Then he played at 
dice with the brother of the two Nagini, Yuny mdze ma and 
ih f, : Thus vine years elapsed. But then the Naga 
ad a difference with Kesar and called him, “‘ Forgetter of glang. 
e 
That very night Kesar saw his horse in iis dream went to 
cura, | * Very similar passage to this in Kesnr-saga, Tale Noe Me 
Kesar’s victory over the giant of the North, Bibliotheca Indica. 
