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REAP WHAT YOU SOW
When the emperor regained his composure he called his reporter and said
In every street of every village and city people started reciting the verse but no one could add the fourth line. One day a gardener rushed into the assembly and said
Go! make an announcement in the state that whoever adds the fourth line to complete this verse (the one he had just mumbled) will be awarded one
lac gold coins.
Sire! I have found the fourth
line.
Recite!
So
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work
The gardener recited the fourth line.
The emperor was astonished. He asked the gardener
An ascetic came into my garden and stood in meditation under a tree. I was mumbling the verse while working in the garden when I heard him say
Have you completed
this verse?
"This is our sixth birth.
The brothers have been separated."
No Sire! I am not the poet.
Indeed! this must be the fourth line.
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