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a circle to be formed round him ; but the noble beaft broke through the toils, 

 and the hunters purfued him from country to country, til; they came to the 

 burning fands of Barbara, where his courfe was fo-much impeded, that he 

 affumed his true fhape of a Rdcjhafa, and began to bellow with the found of a 

 large drum, called dundu % from which he had acquired the name of Dun 

 DUBHi.Thefonof Cama, inftead of being difmayed, attacked the giant, 

 and, after an obftinate combat, flew him; but was aftonifhed on feeing a beau- 

 tiful youth rife from the bleeding body, with the countenance and form of 

 a Gandkarva, or celeftial quirifter ; who told him, before he vanifhed, that 

 " he had been expelled for a time from the heavenly manfions,. and, as a 

 ** punifhment for a great offence, had been condemned to pafs through a 

 &l mortal flate in the fhape of a giant, with a power to take other forms;, 

 M that his crime was expiated by death, but that the prince defer.ved, and 

 c * would receive, chaflifement, for molefting an elephant, who was enjoy-- 

 «<» jng innocent pleafures." The place, where the white elephant renamed 

 the fhape of a Rac'Jkafa, was called Racjhafa-fhan; and that, where 

 he was killed, Bandubhi-mara-Ji'hdn, or Rdcjliafa-mocjhana, becaufe he 

 there acquired mocftia, or a releafe from his mortal body : it is declared in 

 the Uttara~charitra, that* a pilgrimage to thofe places, with the perform- 

 ance of certain holy rites, will ever fecure the pilgrims from the dread of 

 giants and evil fpirits. 



Cant AC a, the younger brother of Dundubhi, meditated vengeance-, 

 and afTuming the character of a Brahmen, procured an introduction to Visva- 

 PHANwa as a perfon eminently fkilled in the art of cookery ■: he was accord- 

 ingly appointed chief cook, and, a number of Brdhmens having been invited 

 to a folemn entertainment, he flewed a cu-fiapa, or corpfe, (fome fayputrm 

 Jijh) and gave it in foupe to the guefls % who,, difcovering the abominable af- 



