When the fire of hunger blazes and there is no food to be found, certain remedies bring relief and nourishment. If one eats the fruit of the palmyra or bael tree and immediately drinks water, or pours hot water over the head—especially in the month of Bhādra—or consumes anything bitter, the discomfort is eased. Eating ground coriander mixed with sugar and cold water, or consuming ripe bael or palmyra fruit, as well as all preparations made from sugarcane, swiftly pacifies the bile and restores strength and vitality. However, some habits and foods are best avoided. Bathing immediately after eating, or drinking water without feeling true thirst, can be harmful. Stale food, buttermilk, ripe plantain fruit, and curd, as well as coconut water, bathing with cold water, or drinking water that has become stale, all tend to increase phlegm. Bathing after eating during the rainy season, or consuming radish, also leads to the production of phlegm. Likewise, food that has been reheated, spoiled, or prepared with a certain kind of cooked oil, along with uncooked rice-balls and unripe plantain fruit, are best left aside. Yet, there are remedies for excess phlegm: the powder of rocanā mixed with ghee, and dried sugar combined with ghee, quickly dispel it, O Gandharvi. Immediately after eating, if one walks or runs, or engages in union with an elderly woman, or suffers from mental distress, these can disturb the wind (vāyu) in the body. Harsh words, fear, and sorrow are also causes of this imbalance. To counteract vāyu, ripe plantain fruit, water sweetened with sugar and seeds, buffalo curd (plain or sweetened), a special kind of cooked oil, and pure sesame oil are beneficial. Bathing in either cold or hot water, and the application of fine sandalwood paste, O child, all these are known to swiftly destroy vāyu. Thus, the various groups of diseases and their remedies have been described. Yet, all these methods, if misused, can themselves become causes of disease and destruction. O virtuous one, even if I spoke for a year, it would not be possible to describe them all in full detail. Now, tell me, by what disease did your beloved die? Speak, O beautiful one. The bard then said: Gandharvi, delighted, began to recount her tale. Mālavati spoke: “O Brahmin, listen—my beloved was overcome by shame in the assembly. All this I have heard—a most auspicious and delightful tale, never told before. Now, O wise one, grant me back my beloved, the very breath of my life—grant him, grant him to me!” Hearing these heartfelt words of Mālavati, Janārdana, who was disguised as a brāhmaṇa, listened intently. Sauti continued: Thus, in that assembly, a conversation arose among those present. The gods, however, did not recognize that Śrī Hari himself had assumed the form of a brāhmaṇa among them. Addressing the gods and the brāhmaṇa with sweet words, O twice-born one, the brāhmaṇa spoke: “She, worn down by grief, now begs her master for the gift of life. What is the proper course of action? What should certainly be done in this matter?” That virtuous and radiant lady, driven to the edge by her sorrow, was about to pronounce a curse upon all the gods. “You have all offered praise, even to Hari on Śvetadvīpa,” she declared. At that moment, a voice resounded from the sky, proclaiming, “Keśava will come later.” Hearing the words of the brāhmaṇa, Brahmā himself—the great teacher of the world—prepared to respond.