This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...put his finger down his throat and vomited, but no such food came to light. Then Mahaushadha asked the Brahman whence he had come. "From my father-in-law's," replied the Brahman. "What did you eat there?" "Curdled milk, porridge, and radishes." Him likewise Mahaushadha ordered to bring up what he had eaten, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...put his finger down his throat and vomited, but no such food came to light. Then Mahaushadha asked the Brahman whence he had come. "From my father-in-law's," replied the Brahman. "What did you eat there?" "Curdled milk, porridge, and radishes." Him likewise Mahaushadha ordered to bring up what he had eaten, and the result was that he produced the food in question. As Mahaushadha now perceived that the rogue had deluded and carried off the Brahman's wife, he gave orders that he should be chastised by blows from sticks and fists, and that he should then be set fast up to the neck in a hole a man's stature in depth, and that there should be written on his forehead with peacock's gall these words--"He who thus steals a wife, him does Mahaushadha punish in this wise. He who, like unto the wife-stealer, has stolen a child, an ox, a coverlet, yarn, or the like, such thieves as this shall be arrested up to the number of five hundred, and shall be chastised by blows from sticks and fists, and shall be set up to their necks in a 1 Cf. " &ukasaptate," in the Greek version of Galanos, 4th night, p. 10.--S. Now, when the six ministers had exhausted the land, and the king became aware of the fact, the idea came into his mind of finding out of what nature Mahaushadha really was. He told the ministers that he was going to the chase, and he went with a great following to the hill-villages. When the five hundred rogues who had been set in the pit saw the king, most of them cried out, "0 king!" The king heard the cry, and looked around on all sides, but he saw no man, though the cry again resounded. 0ne of the rogues perceived this, and repeated it. The king caught sight of him, and read on his forehead the words writ...
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