HIMALA MOUNTAINS. 
249 
ungrateful elephant rushed upon his benefactor, and 
would have torn him to pieces in an instant ; but 
the holy man, knowing by virtue of his piety and 
by divine intuition, the evil machinations which had 
sprung up in the heart of the elephant, by one blight- 
ing glance of his eye, paralysed the limbs of that 
monstrous brute, and then, pronouncing a word or two 
of jddoo, and spirting a few drops of water in his 
face, he immediately re-transformed him into a mouse ; 
being convinced that the degradation to his former 
insignificance would prove a much more severe pu- 
nishment than annihilation could ever be. 
“Now, my daughter, follow the example of the 
wise Sanias ; you have been pleased to raise this 
ingrate from poverty and abject nothingness to the 
favour of your love and the enjoyment of all which 
your wealth could bestow upon him. How has he 
requited your affection P Now make him the laugh- 
ing-stock of the world, and the mark of his own 
bitter hatred and contempt, by casting him back upon 
his original littleness.” 
Neel Khoar could not but admire the advice of the 
Sanias, and having ordered the culprit to be stripped 
of all which he possessed, she had him branded on 
the cheeks with a mark of infamy, and turned him 
