52. As it became morning, the Rákshasí went inside the house, and there remained with the women; while the prince and the minister attended to their business.
53. Then in the course of six days, the prince collected together all the offenders whom he had seized in his territory, and brought from other parts.
54. These amounted to three thousand heads which he gave up to her; when she resumed her fiercely dark form of the black fiend of night.
55. She laid hold of thousands of men in her extended grasp, in the manner of a fragment of cloud retaining the drops of rain water in its wide spread bosom.
56. She took leave of the prince and went to the top of the mountain with her prey, as a poor man takes the gold, that he happens to get in some hidden place.
57. There she refreshed herself with her food and rest for three days and nights; and then regaining the firmness of her under-standing, she was employed in her devotion.
58. She used to rise from her devotion once after the lapse of four or five and sometimes seven years, when she repaired to the habitation of men and to the court of the prince.
59. There passing sometime in their confidential conversation, she returned to her retired seat in the mountain, with her prey of the offenders.
60. Thus freed from cares even in her lifetime, she continued to remain as a liberated being in that mountain &c. &c.