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People showered flowers on Shubhmati from all around. Balbhadra said
Shubhmati said
Bahu, what is the secret. Please
tell me.
Hail sati Shubhmati.
Father, a seed once sown, certainly sprouts.
You misappropriated the five gems left in trust with you. You violated the trust. With vengeance in mind that Brahmin youth died
and reincarnated as this snake.
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She continued
This snake came and hid in this house. It took its revenge by biting your four matured
sons one by one. But today I sought its forgiveness and returned its property. It was
pacified and spared the life of your son.
The merchant asked with surpriseBut why did it take
Because in exchange of four only one of the
gems it had already taken gems?
the lives of your four sons. Now his account is clear.
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