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Laadh area had no crops of sesame or other oil-seeds. It had very few cattle. Therefore, oil or butter was not available for cooking. The inhabitants ate dry and insipid food and therefore there attitude was also dry and rough. To get agitated for no reason, start abusing, and quarrelling were commonplace. They covered their bodies with grass or bark. Bhagavan generally got dry and insipid food. When he went to seek alms in the afternoon, Bhagavan would get soaked and stale rice, half-cooked pulse and tamarind juice. He even did not get salt.
That area was filled with ferocious wild dogs. The inhabitants of that area and the mendicants who frequented, always carried a long stick to protect themselves from these dogs. But Bhagavan was extremely non-violent and did not carry any stick. Therefore dogs would attack him without any fear. Some aborigines also ushered these dogs and provoked them to bite. Bhagavan.
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उपधान-श्रुत : नवम अध्ययन
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Upadhan-Shrut: Ninth Chapter
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