In Kali's Country: Tales From Sunny India

“The five years will be up to-morrow. When the sun rises next upon the festival of Kali I shall have completed my vow.”
Scarcely had the holy man been able to say his prayers or repeat his sacred texts the whole day long, for there had been constantly before his mind the knowledge that this was the last day of his self-imposed sacrifices and that the next day he would be free from all restraints to do—what?