Note 3 — Chapter LXXXVIII · (Vetála 14.)

And at that very moment the holy Śiva, who was invisibly present in the cemetery, spake from the air, “Faithful wife, I am pleased with thy devotedness to thy self-chosen husband, so crave a boon of me.” When she heard that, she worshipped and prayed the god of gods to grant her the following boon, “Lord, may my father, who has now no sons, have a hundred, for otherwise, as he has no children but me, he would abandon his life.”3 When the good woman had said this, the god once more spake to her, saving, “Let thy father have a hundred sons! choose another boon; for such a steadfastly good woman, as thou art, deserves something more than this.”