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with in five days and I will get all the other things back. If I can't I will also burn myself on the funeral pyre.”
If Inforning this, Mahabal returned to his room. When it was dark nignt, he shut all the doors. Only one window was kept open. He sat with a naked sword on his hand and decided to keep awake the whole night. He hoped that as usual, to day also the thief would surely come. He decided to catch hold of him.
Nothing happened till midnight. After sometime, one lovely hand enterel in the room from the window. Mahabal first thought is better to cut off the hand with a sword; but then he revised his thought to arrest the thief himself. So with full force he caught hold of the hand. That hand, with a terrıle force flew along with Mahabal to the clouds. Mahabal could see only the hand. The thief was completely invisible. Mahabal was awefully :surprised. So Mahabal asked :
