3. She remembered the whole course of her past life, and derived pleasure in relating the events of her former life and death. 4. Lílá said:—I recollect by thy favour, O goddess! and by sight of this place, all what I did and thought of in my past life. 5. Here I had grown up to old age, and here I had withered and become lean and thin as a skeleton. I was a Bráhmaní here, and had my body scratched by the dried sacrificial grass (_kusa_), which I had to meddle with. 6. I was the legal wife of my lord, and producer of his race, and was employed in the acts of milking the kine, and churning the curd (for butter and _ghee_). I had been mother of many sons, and a kind hostess to my guests. 7. I was devoted to the service of the gods, Bráhmans and good people, and rubbed my body with cow milk and _ghee_: I was employed in cleaning the frying pans and the boiling kettles of the house. 8. I boiled the food daily with a single bracelet of glass and one of conch-shell in my wrists; and served my father, mother, brother and daughters and sons-in-law with their daily victuals. 9. I was emaciated in my body like a domestic servant, by working all day and night; and ‘haste and hasten,’ were the words I used to repeat to myself. 10. Being thus busied and employed, I was so silly and ignorant, that I never thought within myself, even in a dream, about what I was and what was this world, although I had been the wife of a Bráhman. 11. Wholly engaged in the collection of fuel, cow-dung, and sacrificial wood and vegetables, I became emaciated in my body, which was wrapt in a worn out blanket. 12. I used to pick out the worms from the ears of the milch cow, and was prompt to water the garden of greens with watering pots in hand. 13. I used to go to the swelling lake every day, and get the fresh green grass for the fodder of my tender calves. I used to wash and clean the house every morning, and paint the doorway with the white tints of pasted and powdered rice (_gundi_). 14. I had to correct my domestics with gentle rebukes, and tell them to keep within their bounds like the billows in the rivers. 15. With my infirm body and ears shaking as dried leaves of trees, and supporting myself on a stick, I lived here under the dread of old age. 16. As she was speaking in this manner, and walking in company with Sarasvatí about the village, in the valley of the mountain, she was astonished to see her former seats of pleasure, and showed them to the goddess. 17. This was my flowery arbour, decorated by these torn _pátala_ plants, and this was my garden alcove of flowering Asokas. 18. This is the bank of the pond where the calves were loosely tied to the trees; and this is my pet calf Karniká, which has refrained from browzing the leaves (in my absence). 19. This is my watering woman, now so languid and dirty in her appearance; and weeping these eight days in my absence, with her eyes daubed in tears.