Simhasanadvatrimshika 12.p13

12.p13

The demon said: "What is this concern of yours? Go your own way, otherwise you will die in vain by my hand." Then a battle took place between the two, and the demon was killed by the king. Then that woman came, fell at the king's feet, and said: "O master, by your grace the end of my curse has arrived; I have been lifted up by you from a great ocean of sorrow." The king said: "Who are you?" She said: "Listen. In this very city there was a certain brahmin possessed of great wealth. I, an unfaithful woman, was his wife; I had no love for him, [yet] he had a great attachment to me. Puffed up with pride in my beauty and the like, when summoned by him for pleasure, I would not go. Then, tormented by desire throughout his life, my husband at the time of his bodily death cursed me: 'Since throughout my life sorrow was caused to me by you, you wicked and sinful woman, even so let a certain most terrifying demon dwelling in the bamboo forest kill you every day at night for the sake of sexual congress, against your will!' Thus was I cursed by him. Again, the end of the curse was begged for by me: 'O lord, give me an end to the curse!' He said: 'When a certain man of great courage who practices benevolence towards others comes and kills the demon, then the end of your curse will come.'"