Chapter 13 — Brahmin's Colic Pain Subsided

Literal. Shri Guru travels south, blesses his sister Ratnai (predicting her future leprosy and meeting at Papvinashi), then arrives at Brahmeshwar where a Brahmin suffers acute colic pain (he has fasted for weeks because eating triggers the pain). Shri Guru has him fed with prescribed food + medicine fried in ghee; the colic vanishes. The town's officer Sayamdev — town-officer under a Muslim ruler at Kanchi — meets him and invites him home. Sayamdev's family becomes a multi-generational devotee household; the chapter introduces the lineage that will bridge to Saraswati Gangadhar (the author of the Guru Charitra, four generations later).

Symbolic. Healing through correct prescription rather than miraculous touch is a quieter modality of the Guru's intervention than what we have seen in earlier chapters. It is also the first appearance of Sayamdev — the author's ancestor — and through him the transmission line of the book itself.