Note 1 — Chapter CXXIV

Then I went near the pyre, and the kápálika came there with the magic staff dancing1 on his shoulder, and the booming drum in his hand. He quenched the flume of the pyre, king, by throwing ashes on it,2 and then my wife rose up from the midst of it uninjured. The kápálika took with him my wife who followed him, drawn by his magic power, and ran off quickly, and I followed him with my bow and arrows.