s, good-will, modesty, forgiveness,
exemption from envy, sacrifice, charity, concentration and
control over the senses.

[38] According to some, endeavours to attain emancipation can be
successful not in this world but in the world of Brahma. Others
say that to that end a special _yoga_ is necessary. By bringing
forward the objects numbering _thirteen_, Vandin advances the
opinion that, virtue, etc., are not sufficient for purposes of
emancipation but that suitable time and place are also
essential.

"Lomasa said, 'Having proceeded thus far, Vandin stopped. Thereupon
Ashtavakra supplied the latter half of the _sloka_. Ashtavakra said,
"Thirteen sacrifices are presided over by Kesi; and thirteen are
devoured by _Atichhandas_, (the longer metres) of the Veda."[39] And
seeing Ashtavakra speaking and the Suta's son silent, and pensive, and
with head downcast, the assembly broke into a long uproar. And when the
tumult thus arose in the splendid sacrifice performed by king Janaka,
the Brahmanas well pleased, and with joined hands, approached
Ashtavakra, and began to pay him homage.

[39] Ashtavakra concludes by citing the same number _thirteen_.
The soul which is essentially unaffected, becomes subject to
happiness and misery through the _thirteen_, viz., the ten
organs of locomotion and sense, and intellect mind and egoism.
But Atichhanadas, i.e., those that have surmounted ignorance,
namely, the twelve, virtue, etc. destroy those thirteen and that
is emancipation.

"'Thereupon Ashtavakra said, "Before this, this man, defeating the
Brahmanas in controversy, used to cast them into water. Let Vandin today
meet with the same fate. Seize him and drown him in water." Vandin said.
"O Janaka, I am the son of king Varuna. Simultaneously with thy
sacrifice, there also hath commenced a sacrifice extending over twelve
years. It is for this that I have despatched the principal Brahmanas
thither. They have gone to witness Varuna's sacrifice. Lo! there they
are returning. I pay homage to the worshipful Ashtavakra, by whose grace
to-day I shall join him who hath begot me."

"'Ashtavakra said, "Defeating the Brahmanas either by words or subtlety.
Vandin had cast them into the waters of the sea. (That Vedic truth which
he had suppressed by false arguments), have I to-day rescued by dint of
my intellect. Now let candid men judge. As Agni, who knoweth the
character of both