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to Yama’s abode; the Lady Mayana arrived on the banks of the dread 
river. 86. When Mayana saw the river she became fearful. It is a 
river six months wide. The ferry-boat finishes its voyage in a year. Each 
wave seems vast as mountain peak. 
The Burden of her song. 
87. a My fate hath become a lot of misery, as Krishna was of Binda. 
The boat is broken and the ropes are worn ; how can I pass over, O my 
guru. That is, if my guru is by me to help me. 88. I will hold the 
rudder of virtue. O my guru, the boat is broken, and the ropes are worn, 
but I will cross over.” 
89. Half her scarf she spread upon the water, and thinking upon 
virtue, she took her magic seat. 90. Mayana uttered the words “ tudu , 
tuduf and the journey of six months was accomplished in six quarters of 
an hour. 91. She walked to Yama’s palace, where thirty-six krors of 
Yamas were sitting in the hall of audience. 92. As soon as the Lady 
Mayana stood in Yama’s abode, on this side and on that side the Yamas 
began to run away. 93. When Mayana came to Yama’s palace, she 
spread great alarm; some got colic and some got pains in their heads. 91. 
She became a Muhammadan doctor and a Hindu doctor, and extracted the 
poison from their bodies ; but when she came to give them medicine every 
one ran away. 95. As soon as Goda Yama cast eyes on Mayana, he ran 
away as fast as his legs would carry him to his own palace. 96. He went 
to his own palace and hid himself in a room, and from where she, the Lady 
Mayana, was, she lost sight of him. 97. The Lady Mayana went into 
contemplation and gazed about, and in her contemplation she saw him in 
his room. 98. Mayana collected herself together, and laid aside her own 
proper form. She put on the appearance of a gardener’s wife, and went 
into the palace of Goda Yama. 99. “ Goda, Goda”, Mayana cried to 
him with a loud voice. 100. As soon as Goda Yama saw Mayana he 
burst through the tati walls of his palace and ran away*. 101. Mayana 
cried “ mar mar ” and chased him through a treeless field, where a hundred 
ploughmen were ploughing. Like a deer did Mayana chase Yama. 102. 
Thence Goda Yama lost his senses and turned himself into a prawn, and 
jumped into the sea. 103. The Lady Mayana went into contemplation 
and gazed about, and in her contemplation her eyes fell on the prawn. 
104. Mayana uttered “ turn turn ” with a terrible cry, and changed 
herself into forty-two buffalos, who jumped into the sea. 105. Eating 
cress she chased Yama. In mid-sea she caught Yama by the neck. 106. 
* Compare note on v. 21. All the houses of the peasantry in Rangpur are built 
of tati (mat) walls. When a thief is caught in such a house, he attempts, usually 
successfully, to escape by bursting through these flimsy obstructions. 
