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There Goda Yama, mighty as the thunder-bolt, burst the staff she held 
in her right hand and fled. 107. Thence Goda Yama lost his senses and 
he became a minnow and began to swim in the water. 108. Leaving 
her former shape, Mayana concentrated herself and became a TanMuri 
and Vdnoyar ,* by a change of her form. 109. With flappings of her 
wings she chased him, and in mid-sea she snapped up Goda Yama in her 
bill. 110. Then Goda Yama, mighty as the thunder-bolt, thrust Mayana 
off, and ran away. 111. Thereafter what did Goda Yama do ? He 
became an eel, and hid himself in the mud. 112. Thence the Lady 
Mayana went into contemplation, and her eyes fell upon him in the mud. 
113. Mayana uttered “ tudu , tudxd n with a terrible cry, she became a 
swan ; pecking at the mud she chased Goda Yama, and in mid-sea she 
seized Goda Yama by the neck. 114. He thrust off the Lady Mayana 
and fled away. He cast aside his former form, and Goda Yama concen¬ 
trated himself. 115. He took the form of a maggot and went off to 
Patala. 116. When he arrived at Patala, Yama twisted his beard (boast¬ 
fully). “How, how will the sydli , the Lady Mayana, recognize me.” 
117. The Lady Mayana went into contemplation and gazed about, and 
in her contemplation her eyes fell on the maggot. 118. Leaving her 
former shape Mayana concentrated herself, and became an ant by a change 
of her form. 119. She went to the world of Patala, and, seizing Goda 
Yama by the throat, gradually pulled him up out of the ground. 120. 
Leaving her former shape Mayana concentrated herself, and became her 
ownself by a change of form. 121. She threw him down on his face, 
and began to belabour Goda Yama. She continued belabouring him till 
her hands were weary. She then turned him on his back, and began to 
kick him. 122. Then Goda Yama, mighty as the thunder-bolt, became 
a house pigeon and flew off to the sky. 123. Mayana changed her shape, 
and became a falcon and a hawk, and she pecked at him and cast Goda 
Yama down from heaven. 124. Thence Goda Yama lost his senses, and 
became a mouse changing his form. 125. He went to Kathiya the oil¬ 
man’s house, and hid himself under his machd. f 126. The Lady Mayana 
went into contemplation and gazed about, and in her contemplation her 
eyes fell upon the mouse. 127. Leaving her former shape Mayana 
concentrated herself, and became a cat by a change of form. 128. She 
changed herself from being one cat into forty-two cats, and surrounded the 
house of Kathiya the oilman. 129. One danda, two dandas, three dandas 
passed, and the ill-natured woman caught good-natured Goda Yama. 130. 
She made him descend from the machd , and with a sudden leap the Lady 
Mayana seized him by the neck. 131. Thence Goda Yama, mighty as the 
thunder-bolt, slipped out between the interstices of her claws and fled. 
* Two kinds of fish-eating birds. t A bamboo bench. 
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