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become untrue.” So thinking the Goddess would, by her divine feat, make him reach a sandalwood forest. Similarly, whenever Haridatt became ready to free the animals from his net and to take away the net,. the Goddess managed to entrap whiteelephants in his net. In this way the Goddess was, while trying to carry out her decree, also destroying it. She was thus indirectly so helping the boys that they could amass enormous wealth and live happily after abandoning rheir professions..
By and by Matisagar collected a huge quantity of sandalwood. Haridatt also collected hundreds and thousands of elephants. Thereafter both of them sold them and collected enormous wealth. Then they both lived in royal pomp and pleasure. Then the minister came to them to see the wonderful effect of his intelligent plan. The minister was pleased with his success. He then gathered a large army with the help of the wealth of both the boys. There
