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wrapped his mouth after sitting on a wooden seat, and remained silent. Then at mid-night a god appeared before that Somila and spoke the same thing as before and vanished. Then that Somila, the next day, when the sun was shining bright, clad in bark garments and taking the Kadhivasankaiya (and so forth, down to) wrapped his mouth, after sitting on a wooden seat, and started towards the north.
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103. Then on the fifth day, at the midday time, that Somila went to a fig tree, and placed the Kadhinasankaiya underneath that fig tree, erected a sacrificial alter (and so forth, down to) wrapped his mouth, after sitting on a wooden seat, and remained silent. Then at mid-night a god appeared before the Brahmin Somila and spoke thus: "O you Somila, are you well or ill-initiated ? He spoke this once but Somila remained silent. The god, therefore, spoke twice and thrice thus: 0 you Somila, are you well or ill-initiated ?" Then that Somila, being twice and thrice thus spoken to by that god, spoke to him thus: "O you god, how am I ill-initiated?" Then that god spoke thus to that Brahmin Somila: "Truly, O you beloved of the gols, you accepted, in the presence of Lord
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