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The Kathá Sarit Ságara

Note 7 — Chapter LXXXIX · (Vetála 15.)

C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation

The 10 stages are thus given by Śivadása: (1) Love of the eyes; (2) attachment of the mind (manas); (3) the production of desire; (4) sleeplessness; (5) emaciation; (6) indifference to objects of sense; (7) loss of shame; (8) distraction; (9) fainting; (10) death. (Dr. Zachariæ’s Sixteenth Tale of the Vetálapanchavinśati, in Bezzenberger’s Beiträge).

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