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- Vijaya. This thief arrived there and saw child Devdutt richly adorned with
ornaments. He became mad with greed. Furtively he looked around and found that slave Panthak was inattentive towards the child. He quickly picked up the infant in his arm and covered it with his shawi.
He rushed away from that spot, came out of the city and arrived near a broken well in a ruined garden. There he killed the infant and took all its cloths and ornaments. He threw the dead body of the infant in that broken well. Then he went and hid himself into a nearby thicket.
Panthak returned and informed Dhanya merchant that the boy was lost. Getting this information Dhanya merchant was shocked. He approached the police force. Immediately on getting the report the police force launched a search. When they came near the broken well inside that ruined garden and looked down into the well they saw the limp dead body of Devdutt. The body was taken out from the well and handed over to Dhanya merchant. Overwhelmed with sorrow, Dhanya merchant cremated the dead body.
Trekking the foot-prints left by the absconding thief the policemen reached that dense thicket and caught Vijaya red handed with the stolen goods. They tied his neck with a rope, paraded him in the town thrashing him with whips and canes and imprisoned him.
Once, accused by some adversaries Dhanya was apprehended and imprisoned. He was put in the same prison and shackled jointly with Vijaya thief. Bhadra sent food in the prison with Panthak. When Dhanya started eating Vijaya asked for something to eat. Dhanya refused angrily.
After some time Dhanya wanted to relieve himself. He requested Vijaya to accompany him to a secluded spot to enable him to relieve himself. Vijaya refused. After sometime Dhanya repeated his request. This time Vijaya said that if Dhanya agreed to share the food he would accompany. Dhanya was forced to agree. Vijaya now accompanied him to a secluded spot and Dhanya relieved himself.
Next morning when Panthak served the food Dhanya merchant shared it with Vijaya. Panthak informed of this to Bhadra when he returned home. Bhadra became displeased with Dhanya merchant.
Later Dhanya paid the fine and got himself released from the prison. When he returned home all but his wife greeted him with joy. When Dhanya asked for the reason of her reticence Bhadra informed that she was angry because he had shared the food she sent with the killer of her son. Dhanya explained that he shared the food with the killer for no other purpose but to satisfy the needs of his body. Bhadra was pleased and satisfied with this explanation.
In the later part of his life Dhanya got initiated and earnestly followed the ascetic discipline. Finally he accepted the ultimate vow and after a one month fast he breathed his last and was reborn as a god in the Saudharma dimension. He shall be reborn as a human being in the Mahavideh area and shall attain liberation ending all the sorrows during the same birth.
como Gma 04
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