Bhojaprabandha 44_136

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Thereafter, after about forty-eight minutes, a Kāpālika yogin entered the royal assembly, his hand adorned with a staff of an elephant's tusk, his matted hair tied up in front, his whole body rubbed with camphor-mixed ashes, appearing like Kāmadeva in person, his ears adorned with crystal earrings, wearing a silk loincloth, looking like Mahādeva himself wearing the moon upon his crest. Seeing him, Buddhisāgara asked: 'O king of yogins, where have you come from, and where is your dwelling place? O skull-bearer yogin, do you also possess any miraculous special art or special medicine?'