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there at the eminent risk of his life, feeling conscious, 
however, that he who had escaped drowning at the 
bottom of the Ganges, was not doomed to perish 
by rain and lightning. When the monsoon had 
passed away, he still continued his ascetic life, which 
he had made a vow to devote to the severest auste- 
rities of his religion. 
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