20. He then arrived at a region which was free from fear, and where there rose a high mountain with water-falls in all sides of it; here the prince was lost in the forest of _haritaki_ or chebula--myrobalans, and become invisible for years. 21. The prince that had erewhile been spellbound by the yaksha, travelled afterwards to the frigid climate; and there being transformed to a lion, he roved about the Raivata hills for ten days and nights. 22. And then being deluded by the black art of Pisáchas, he was changed to the form of a frog, and lived in that state in the caves of the golden mountain for a decad of years. 23. Travelling afterwards to the country of Kumárika (Cape Comorin), he dwelt at the bottom of the northern ridge of the Black mountain. Then going to the _saca_ country, he was transformed to a hog, and lived in a dark hole for a hundred years in that shape. 24. He lived for fourteen years as a squint-eyed, in the land of _marivaca_; when the western form of the prince was turned to a Vidyádhara, by virtue of his skill in learning various lore. 25. There he enjoyed sexual intercourse at his full satisfaction under the scented bower of _alá_, and passed his time in amusement. CHAPTER CXXV. ON THE LIVING LIBERATION OF THE PRINCE. Argument:--Mutual assistance of the four persons of the prince to one another, and their true meaning. Vasishtha continued:--Now of the quadripartite bodies of the prince, that which was transformed to a tree, in the valley called the vale of fearlessness in _sacadwípa_: supported itself by sucking the better water of the rock which it drew by its roots. 2. It was then that the western part of the royal person, came up to the relief of the former or eastern part, and released it from the curse of its vegetable state of full seventy years, by the power of its incantations. 3. Again the western person of the king, passing to the frigid clime, was there transformed to a stone by curse of the chief of the Pisácha tribe; but was released afterwards from that state by <a> southern personage, by his offering of meat food to the carnivorous Pisácha. 4. At another time as this western personage, was settled beyond the western horizon, it was changed to the form of a bull by a female fiend, that had assumed on her the form of a cow, and was freed at last from that state by the southern person. 5. Again the southern figure of the prince, was doomed to live as a demon on a mountain tree in the Kshemaka, and was liberated at last from it by the yaksha prince. 6. Then again, the eastern person of the prince, was metamorphosed to the shape of a lion, on a mountain in the province of Vrishaka, and was delivered for its metamorphoses by the western personality.