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of bliss. He then continues his narrative with reference to Siddha siva 

 tlie son of Prifha. He became famous and ruled in the midst of plenty. 

 His yomiger brothers respected him : but, by the ill wishes of Vasishta^ 

 three agnis were born on earth, as his children, and immediately died. 

 By Pasupati his wife he had a son, who made a sacrifice for a thousand 

 years ; and then became a recluse devotee. He had six childi*en, one 

 of whom made the whole world a sacrificial plain. 



The last mentioned had a son named Prasana, who had ten sons of 

 equal powers, talents and courtesy, whence they acquired the epithet of 

 " servants of the people." These ten, going to the southern sea found a 

 reservoir of sweet water ; and heard sounds of music, where the before 

 mentioned Sanaca, and the other sages, were doing homage to Nila-can- 

 Vhesvara (or Siva). This Nila-canVhan addressed those young men; 

 telling them, that the worship of Vishnu was pleasing to him ; that 

 there was no essential ditference between himself and Vishnu , that the 

 homage paid to Vishnu equally honoured himself; moreover that both 

 he himself, and his votaries, attained their present happiness by the 

 worship of Vishnu : finally he taught them a mode of worshipping 

 Vishnu, practised, at a former period, by Nareda ; and then disappeared. 

 Those ten sons performed a penance for ten thousand years, directed to 

 Vishtiu. 'But Nareda ivied to destro}^ the merit of their penance. He 

 told Prasana, their father, that the cows (or sacrificial animals) which 

 he had slain in sacrifice, were now waiting in the celestial world, being 

 armed with iron horns, and whenever he attempted to enter there, they 

 would push him away ; by which argument he persuaded him to put 

 an end to his sacrifice. The king said he was sinking in the sea of. 

 earthly pleasures ; and begged to know how he might avoid, or get rid 

 of his delusion. In reply Nareda tells the (allegorical) tale of one 

 Puranjaija (conqueror of the exterior) who desired to possess a town, 

 and finding one with nine gates, he lived therein, for a long time, a mere- 

 ly animal life, without desiring beatification. When the tale is ended 

 Prasana asks the mystical meaning ; and /Varec/a, stating it to be alle- 

 gorical, explains it as referring to the soul inhabiting the body, having 

 nine entrances (that is, the five senses &c.) and lethargic therein, mitll at 

 length awakened as if from sleep it becomes conscious of spiritual things, 

 and desires fall emancipation. The object of the lesson is to teach a , 

 suppression of the senses ; or an entire subjugation of the bodily appe- -. 

 tites, and passions with which moral the fourth section ends. 



Remark. In order to obviate an undue preponderance of one subject, 

 and an entrenching on the space proper to be given to other matters, 



