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184 THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY.
family in the same sufferingsc. If a Hindoo at the time of
worship put a stalk of doorva grass on the lingu, he and
seven generations sink into hell.
Emancipation of the wicked, a story, from the Muhabha-
riitu.—Ravunii at one time had conquered the three worlds,
heaven, earth, and patalu; and, as is said of Alexander, he
sighed that there were no more worlds to conquer. When
meditating where he should go next, the world of misery
came into his mind; and he immediately resolved to pay a
visit to Yumu. Before his arrival, it was announced that
Ravunii was coming: Yumu, filled with fear, sent word,
that he had already surrendered to him, and was become
his vassal. Ravunii, however, pushed forward, and found
Yumu all submission. The conqueror, before his return, re-
solved to visit the place of the damned: but on his arrival,
he was petrified with horror at the cries of the miserable
wretches; and, reflecting on what he saw, said,' I have con-
quered the three worlds, and there remains nothing which
my prowess has not performed. It will be a glorious thing for
me to set all these wretches at liberty.'—He immediately
attempted to comfort the sufferers, by assuring them that he
would not depart without accomplishing their deliverance.
A transient gleam of hope visited the regions of despair.
Ravunii then commanded ' the spirits from the fiery deep,'
and, with his twenty arms, began to drag them up; but as
fast as he landed them on the side, they fell in again : still he
continued his efforts, till he saw that they were unavailing,
and that he could not reverse the decree which had fixed them
in misery. Acknowledging his disappointment to the poor
prisoners, he left them, and returned to Liinka, (Ceylon.)
• I have heard a Hindoo say, that such a person not only incurs all this
future misery, but that the hand that touches the sacred water becomes
white. This person said he had seen several Hindoos who bore this mark
of the wrath of the gods.
family in the same sufferingsc. If a Hindoo at the time of
worship put a stalk of doorva grass on the lingu, he and
seven generations sink into hell.
Emancipation of the wicked, a story, from the Muhabha-
riitu.—Ravunii at one time had conquered the three worlds,
heaven, earth, and patalu; and, as is said of Alexander, he
sighed that there were no more worlds to conquer. When
meditating where he should go next, the world of misery
came into his mind; and he immediately resolved to pay a
visit to Yumu. Before his arrival, it was announced that
Ravunii was coming: Yumu, filled with fear, sent word,
that he had already surrendered to him, and was become
his vassal. Ravunii, however, pushed forward, and found
Yumu all submission. The conqueror, before his return, re-
solved to visit the place of the damned: but on his arrival,
he was petrified with horror at the cries of the miserable
wretches; and, reflecting on what he saw, said,' I have con-
quered the three worlds, and there remains nothing which
my prowess has not performed. It will be a glorious thing for
me to set all these wretches at liberty.'—He immediately
attempted to comfort the sufferers, by assuring them that he
would not depart without accomplishing their deliverance.
A transient gleam of hope visited the regions of despair.
Ravunii then commanded ' the spirits from the fiery deep,'
and, with his twenty arms, began to drag them up; but as
fast as he landed them on the side, they fell in again : still he
continued his efforts, till he saw that they were unavailing,
and that he could not reverse the decree which had fixed them
in misery. Acknowledging his disappointment to the poor
prisoners, he left them, and returned to Liinka, (Ceylon.)
• I have heard a Hindoo say, that such a person not only incurs all this
future misery, but that the hand that touches the sacred water becomes
white. This person said he had seen several Hindoos who bore this mark
of the wrath of the gods.