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REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Accordingly they urged the ascetic to tell the One day the two brothers were tilling the field. story. He started—Five incarnations before 11 After the day's hard labour the younger this, in the house of a Brahmin in Dasharnpur brother said lived two sons of a maid servant. They worked
Come, we shall sleep in the
Brother! I am so tired hard throughout the day ...
shade of a tree for some time that I cannot return
and regain strength ... home ...
The two brothers went and slept under a tree. After some time a black snake came out of its hole and bit them. They died at once.
They reincarnated as deer in the valley of Kalinjar mountain.
Once when they approached a river bank for water a hunter shot arrows at them. The two little deer died on the spot.
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