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- Addressing the kinsmen of the deceased child, the god said, 'I am Sankara
- the giver of boons.' With hearts heavy with grief, those men prostrated themselves before the great deity
- and said unto him in reply, 'Bereft of this one who was our only child, all of us are at the point of death.
- It behoveth thee to grant us life by granting life to this our son.' Thus solicited, the illustrious deity,
- taking up a quantity of water in his hands granted unto that dead child life extending for a hundred years.
- Ever employed in the good of all creatures, the illustrious wielder of Pinaka granted a boon unto both
- the jackal and the vulture in consequence of which their hunger was appeased.
- Santi Parva: Section CLIII
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