496 A Passage in the life of Vdlmiki. [No. 5. 



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Translation of the above. 



By whom, or how, O Kama, can the greatness of thy name be 

 rehearsed, — that name by whose power I, Kama, have attained 

 the rank of a Brahman saint ? In bygone times I was bred among 

 Kiratas, with the children of Kiratas.* But by birth only was I 



* " By Kiratas, foresters and mountaineers are intended, the inhabitants, to the 

 present day, of the mountains east of Hindustan " Wilson's Vishnu Purdna, 

 p. 175, note 4. 



