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the Jain shraman-"Muniraj ! Your Arhat is omniscient. You are his able disciple. Can you give me a simple information-how many crows are there in this city ?" The shraman at once understood the conspiracy at the back of this question. He accordingly gave a clever answer "Bhante! This is hardly a question of consequence. The city has sixty thousand two hundred and sixty three crows. You may count them. If you find the number a little less, know that some of the local crows have gone out for site seeing. However, if you find the number a little more, consider that some crows from other cities are visiting."
His arrogance having shattered by the autpattiki buddhi of the Jain shraman, the Buddhist monk felt ashamed and went away.
8. Stool Test-Once a man was going some where with his newly wedded beautiful wife. On the way a charlatan joined them and started talking to his wife. Soon he spun his web over the young woman and tried to take her away. When the husband stopped him, the charlatan started a quarrel claiming the woman to be his wife. At last they went to the judge. After hearing to the story the judge, first of all, send them all to different rooms. Then he went to the gentleman and asked him-"What did you eat yesterday." The man informed "I and my wife both ate cookies made of sesame seeds." After this the judge went to the charlatan and posed the same question. The charlatan gave names of some other eatables.
After this the judge arranged for administering purgative to the charlatan and the woman and consequently got their stool test done. It was found that the stool of the woman contained sesame seeds and that of the charlatan did not. Thus the truth was revealed. The woman was returned to the gentleman and the charlatan was punished.
9. The Elephant-A king needed a wise minister. To search an intelligent man with autpattiki buddhi the king got a large elephant tethered in the public park of the town and made an announcement that the man who weighs this elephant exactly will be rewarded.
Numerous persons came, saw the elephant and returned back disheartened thinking that first of all how would they get such a large weighing scale ? And even if they got it, how would they put the
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