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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXXII
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He has a sister who controls all the female culprits, as he exclusively deals with the male sex.

Three times, however, in every twenty-four hours, a demon pours boiling copper into Yama's mouth, and squeezes it down his throat, causing him unspeakable pain." Such, however, is the wonderful "transrotation of births," that when Yama's sins have been expiated, he is to be reborn as Buddha, under the name of "The Universal King." (5) Or, "was loosed;" from the bonds, I suppose, of his various illusions.
(6) I have not met with this particular numerical category..


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