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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1855. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... by all the immortals, who, looking to the ambassador, desired him to speak. Rahu then began: ''0 lord! I am sent to thee by Jalandhara: hear his auspicious words from my mouth; and do thou, who art addicted to devotion, devoid of affection, an abandoner of works, who hast neither father nor mother, nor observest the duties of the householder, obey his commands. The mighty Jalandhara enjoys the dominion of the three worlds; do thou also become subject to him. Why shouldst thou, old, libidinous, and the rider of a bull, refuse to obey him?'' While Rahu thus spoke, the sons of Shiva, Ganesa and Skanda,* were rubbing his body; and, disturbed by their hands, Vasuki fell to the ground, and immediately began to swallow the rat, Ganesa''s vehicle, beginning with the tail. Gananayaka,f on observing the snake about to swallow his courser, called out, ''Loose! loose!'' At this time Skanda''s peacock began to scream in the shrillest manner; and the serpent, frightened, disgorged the rat, and hastened to replace himself on the neck of Shiva, where, violently respiring, he dimmed the brightness of the moon with his poisonous breath. Then came the beloved of Vishnu, dripping from her couch in the Milky Sea, and bearing a vase full with the beverage of immortality, with which she reanimated the head of Brahma that Shiva''s hand eternally displays. The head, falling and rolling on the ground, exclaimed in boasting accents, while the spectators expressed to each other their astonishment, '' I am the first -- I am the most ancient of beings -- I am the creator -- I am the lord of all things.'' At this moment, from the matted locks of Shiva sprang myriads of beings, three faced, three-footed, seven-armed, and with yellow hair hanging in long and matted locks, on seeing whom the hea...
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