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with a son after some months. But the merchant forgot his pledge. So the goddess warned him in a dream of the terrible consequences if he did not still fulfill his promise. The merchant, thereupon, went to the temple and offered the three jewels. But then immediately said :
“Now mother ! We should have the remaining share from the offerings made to you, as usual. So I take one jewel for me, one for my wife and one for my
son."
thus the goddess was cheated. At that time one Yaksha who was the leader of Vyantar gods asked why she was in a thinking mood. When he came to know the cunningness of the Bania merchant, he laughed loudly and said :
“This is nothing. I have met with a more cunning merchant than this.”
Listen what he had done to me :
