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 was engaged in a vow of muttering prayers, he struck up a friendship with a certain wandering hermit. That wandering hermit went with his friend Ádityaśarman, and performed a sacrifice in a cemetery to get a Yakshiní into his power. Then a heavenly maiden, beautifully adorned, appeared to him in a chariot of gold, surrounded with beautiful maidens. She said to him in a sweet voice, " Mendicant, I am a Yakshí named Vidyunmálá, and these others are Yakshinís. Take a suitable wife from my following according to your pleasure. So much have you obtained by your employment of spells; you have not discovered the perfect spell for obtaining me; so, as I am obtained by that only, do not take any further trouble to no purpose." When the Yakshí said this to him, the mendicant consented, and chose one Yakshiní from her retinue. Then Vidyunmálá disappeared, and Ádityaśarman asked that Yakshiní, whom the hermit had obtained, " Is there any Yakshiní superior to Vidyunmálá?" When the Yakshiní heard that, she answered, " Yes, handsome man, there is. Vidyunmálá, Chandralekha, and Sulochaná the third, are the best among the Yakshinís, and among these Sulochaná." After saying that, the Yakshiní departed, to return at the appointed time; and the mendicant went with Ádityaśarman to his house. There the loving Yakshiní every day visited the hermit at the appointed time, and granted him all that he desired. One day Ádityaśarman asked her this question by the mouth of that mendicant: " Who knows the proper spell for attracting Sulochaná?" And the Yakshiní sent him this message by the mouth of the mendicant " There is a place called Jambuvana in the south. There is a mendicant there, named Vishnugupta, who has made his dwelling on the banks of the Vení; he is the best of Buddhist mendicants, and knows the spell at full length." When Ádityaśarman learned this from the Yakshiní, he went in all eagerness to that country, followed by the mendicant out of love. There he duly searched for the Buddhist mendicant, and after he had approached him, he served him devotedly for three years, and waited upon him continually. And by the help of that Yakshiní, who was at the beck and call of the first mendicant, his friend, he provided him with heavenly luxuries, ministered seasonably. Then that Buddhist mendicant, being pleased, gave to that Ádityaśarman the spell for obtaining Sulochaná, which he desired, together with the prescribed rites to accompany it. Then Ádityaśarman. having obtained that spell, and having duly employed it, went into a solitary place and performed there the final sacrifice according to the prescribed ritual, leaving no ceremony out. Then the Yakshiní Sulochaná appeared to him in an air-chariot, with world-enchanting beauty, and said to him, " Come ! come ! I have been won by you, but you must not make me your wife for six months, great hero, if you wish to have by me a son, who will be a favourite of fortune, marked with auspicious marks, all-knowing and invin-