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loes to be killed and ask me to let go one only, even then I would not obey."
The King was so angry with him for his impudence that he ordered the soldiers to throw hiw into a deep, dark well. The order was carried out.
Lastly, the King called Pushpak Sheth to him and requested that he would surrender one day's Samayika's fruit to him.
The merchant : "Your Honour ! 1 do not know what is the fruit and its value of 'Samayik', only Mahavir knows it. When this is the position, how can I surrender the fruit of Samayik?"
The King, disappointed here also, thought however, that he had been successful in two Cases. Kalsaukarik being in the deep well could not do killing, moreover he would got the friut of -Samayik from Mahavir himsel→→
