PLATE SEVEN

“After killing the brahmana Vrtrasura, King Indra suffered because
of this sinful killing. Indra saw personified sinful reaction chasing him,
appearing like a canddla woman, a woman of the lowest class. She
seemed very old, and all the limbs of her body trembled. Because she was
afflicted with tuberculosis, her body and garments were covered with
blood. Breathing an unbearable fishy odor that polluted the entire street,
she called to Indra, ‘Wait! Wait!’ Indra first fled to the sky, but there also
he saw the woman of personified sin chasing him. This witch followed
him wherever he went. At last he very quickly went to the northeast and
entered the Manasa-sarovara Lake.” (pp. 258-260)
