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Our driver guided the car warily among the early peasants and the two-wheeled carts, slowly drawn by yoked, hump-shouldered bullocks, inclined to dispute the road with a honking interloper. "Sir, we would like to know more of the fasting saint." "Her name is Giri Bala," I informed my companions. "I first heard about her years ago from a scholarly gentleman, Sthiti Lal Nundy.
"Mother," I said in Bengali, "for over twenty-five years I have thought eagerly of this very pilgrimage! I heard about your sacred life from Sthiti Lal Nundy Babu." She nodded in acknowledgment. "Yes, my good neighbor in Nawabganj." "During those years I have crossed the oceans, but I never forgot my early plan to someday see you.
He often came to the Gurpar Road home to tutor my brother Bishnu." "'I know Giri Bala well, Sthiti Babu told me. 'She employs a certain yoga technique which enables her to live without eating. Astounded at the story, he invited her to his palace. She agreed to a test and lived for two months locked up in a small section of his home.
The two Twilights and Dhritri and Medha and Sthiti and Sannati, and the firmament bespangled with planets and stars, were made the skins for covering that car. Those Regents of the world, viz., the Lords of the gods, of the waters, of the dead, and of treasures, were made the steeds of that car.
Later she returned for a palace visit of twenty days; and then for a third test of fifteen days. The Maharaja himself told me that these three rigorous scrutinies had convinced him beyond doubt of her non-eating state. "This story of Sthiti Babu's has remained in my mind for over twenty-five years," I concluded. She must be quite aged now. I do not even know where, or if, she lives.
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