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cessively by my own wicked faults, such as duplicity,
envy, pride, etc., even as a camel belonging to a
monastery is the common.drudge of many persons.
 
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From the monster-laugh in the form of the loud
noise on the shore, caused by the dashing of the rag-
ing surge which agitates itself as it moves on, whirled
by the storm raised by the world-ending deluge, forth-
with, O Goddess, the shore of the ocean is reached
with ease by shipwrecked passengers bowing to thee
when they are in imminent peril of drowning, wail-
ing piteously and emitting futile cries of despair.
 
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They who rest on their beds in a house in which
has entered with speed a conflagration, terrible with
the blaze of sparks which rise in waves high up to
the interior of the mansion of the sky that is formed
by the contact of clouds, which are conglomerations
of smoke-even those in such a plight are saved in a
twinkle by thee with the rapidity of a lightning-flash
illumining the clouds with its rapid play, when with
folded palms raised to their heads in token of humble
prayer, they supplicate to thee with voice choked with
tears.
 
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He who is swung about in the cradle formed by
the two rising tusks of an elephant filled with the
fire of hostile rage excited by rival elephants whom
he challenges with loud roars, while bees string them-