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BUNKACHULA (The benefits of vows and codes)
Aegel-32get
In Champa lived two sons of two merchants. They were close friends and spent most of the time together. But their nature was completely opposite.
One day they went to Subhumibhag garden with courtesan Devadatta. After bath and meals they started moving around in the garden enjoying music and dance. Attached to the garden was an area, called Malukakachh, with dense bushes. During their wanderings they
came to Malukakachh. Disturbed by their arrival a peahen sitting there, flew up and sat on a tree branch. When the two friends saw the peahen flying they approached it. Under the tree they found two eggs. Each of them picked one egg and took it home.
One of them was of suspicious nature. He placed the egg with the eggs of a hen he already had so that the hen would hatch it along with its own eggs.
Due to his suspicious nature he would frequently go near the egg and think if the egg would be hatched or not, it would produce a chic or not. With this doubt in mind he would pick the egg, tap it and shake it near his ears. Due to this repeated handling the embryo within became lifeless and it failed to produce a chic.
The other friend who had faith gave the egg to the peacock keeper. At proper time the egg produced a chic. As it grew, the keeper trained it to dance and perform other tricks. Soon this peacock became famous in the city. This second friend was happy to see the performance of his peacock.
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