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Only Truth will be Victorious
sation that was going on among some five or six people near a shop. They stood carefully listening to their conversation.
"Since the time Manasveg, the Vidyadhar king of the city of Hanupur brought his niece to the city the kingdom has been prospering by leaps and bounds," said an old man.
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"Dear brother! Wherever a noble soul places her steps, happiness and prosperity increase in that area."
"Have you heard of this ?" a merchant said,
"What is it ?"
"The king's niece's son is still a pretty child and he has become the apple of every one's eyes. He is the darling of everyone. It seems once he fell down from an airship and then nothing happened to him but the mountain on which he fell, it seems, broke to pieces."
"But I can't believe all this", said one.
"Why? You say that Manasveg's niece is fortunate and that she brings prosperity wherever she goes but I have heard that she has been abandoned by her husband. Would her husband abandon her if she were really noble and virtuous ?"
"You have heard only some false rumours or your information is incomplete. She has been expelled not by her husband but by her mother-in-law. My daughter who came from Hanupur told me all this."
"Whatever it may be would anyone expel a noble and virtuous lady?" the merchant repeated his question.
For a few moments, they were lost in thinking about the matter. Just then a young man who was sitting in the shop came out, sat near the merchants and said;
"Uncle, do you think that noble souls do not suffer? In this world many noble souls have been crushed under the mountain of misery and anguish."
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