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“Who are you? Where are all my things ?!
Mahabal did not get any reply. He tried to get the hand and himself brought down to the earth. But he did not succeed. He himself got one blow and he was separated from that hand. But the protector is always mightie than the killer. Had he fallen on the ground, he would have broken his bones.
Because of the stock of good deeds, he fell in a sitting position on a mangotree. He was thinking how he was trapped in an unknown forest. He even did not know how far his city was there and in what direction ! Jurt then, a python was seen encircling the trunk of that tree. It was a huge python. It had a man in its mouth.
To save that human being, Mahabal thrust a sword in the eyes of the python. It began to suffer severe pain and so the
