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"'Upon the night following the king prepared no feast against the coming of the Vetala, but girt himself for fight. The Vetala came, and seeing nothing in readiness for the repast, but, on the contrary, all things requisite to a combat, he waxed wroth and said: ""O wicked and perverse king, why hast thou made ready nothing for my pleasure this night?"
"'And the king answered: ""Seeing that thou art well-disposed towards me, grant me this grace, that when I call thee, thou wilt in that same instant stand at my side." "'And the Vetala, having granted this grace to the king, departed unto his own place." The Babu waved his hands as a sign that the story was ended.
Perhaps also the god Vetala was originally such a local deity with the savage characteristics proper to the time and place, though later he was half Brahmanized and became a fiend. Among the Todas every clan has its god, who was the creator and instructor of the people.
"'Then into this palace came the Vetala Agni, sword in hand, and went about to slay the august Vikramaditya.
"'And the Vetala answered: ""O King, thou art in the highest degree good, liberal, merciful, just, lord of thyself, and honored of gods and of Brahmans; the measure of joys that are ordained to fill thy life is full; to add anything thereto, to take anything therefrom, are alike impossible." "'Having heard these words, the king was satisfied, and the Vetala departed unto his own place.
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