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KOPAL-KUNDALA.
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ing in all directions, saw that there was a light in the forest. Lutufonissa's courage exceeded a man's, and she went where the light was burning. At first, from the cover of a tree, she saw something very strange. She saw that the light which was burning came from a Hom[1] sacrifice, and the noise which she heard was the noise of the recitation of mantras. She caught one word in the mantra, and that was a name. Immediately she heard the name, Lutufonissa went and sat by the man who was performing the Hom sacrifice.
For the present let her sit there. For a long time the reader has heard nothing of Kopal-Kundala, so that it is necessary to say something about her.
END OF THE THIRD PART.
- ↑ A sacrifice performed by burning ghi (clarified butter) in fire, and repeating certain mantras or incantations.
