Unable to destroy James through conventional weaponry, Townsend deploys a secret weapon - a British necromancer! Is James a match for this new opponent? A battle to the death commences, with the life of little Jack and the future of millions depending on the outcome.

"When James Jensen, a down-on-his-luck Englishman, is recruited into her majesty Queen Victoria's army and posted with his family in Colonial India, he takes the first step towards meeting his destiny. But a tragic twist of fate sends James on a journey that will force him to choose between spiritual awakening and human instinct, guiding him from a simple soldier to a spiritual warrior"--Back cover.

In 1966 a text-edition of Syämilaka's Padatagitaka, an ancient Sanskrit monologue-play (bhä'la) dating from the Gupta time (between 455 and 510 A.D.), was published by me as a doctoral dissertation for the University of Leyden. The present book which is published as the second part of "The Pädata.