Thus, his Ganges bath in the early morning gives him an appetite; he kisses the cow-tails, and that removes it.

It is now business hours, and longings for material prosperity rise in his mind, and be goes and pours water over Shiva's symbol; this insures the prosperity, but also brings on a rain, which gives him a fever.

Then he drinks the sewage at the Kedar Ghat to cure the fever; it cures the fever but gives him the smallpox.

He wishes to know how it is going to turn out; he goes to the Dandpan Temple and looks down the well.

A clouded sun shows him that death is near.