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spilled out and vanished in the sand. 5 Seeing all this the immodest said at once—"Old lady, as this 15 i pitcher has broken so is your son dead."
The old lady was engulfed in a wave of distress. Now the modest i said“Don't say that friend. Her son has already reached home.” He
turned to the old lady and said-—"Mother, please rush back, your son awaits you there."
Reassured, the old lady left for her home. When she reached 15 5 home, she saw that her son, with dust covered feet, was sitting at the
gate and waiting for her. She embraced him with joy and at once e traced back her steps to the young augur, taking along rewarded the modest and showered blessings on him.
When the immodest realised that all his predictions proved wrong and those of his friend proved to be right, he became very sad.
However, instead of finding his own shortcomings he was filled with a US hi deep anger for his teacher—“This is the result of my teacher's s 57 favouritism. He did not teach me properly.” When the two students 4 & returned to their teacher the modest bowed before the teacher with
gratitude. But the immodest just stood there without even greeting the teacher. When the teacher raised a questioning eye, he complained—“You have not taught me properly, therefore my
knowledge is incomplete. Whereas you have taught this fellow with vi all sincerity so that his knowledge is complete. Such favouritism is 4 not proper for a good teacher."
The teacher asked the modest with surprise--"Son, what is the matter ? Why your colleague feels like that ? Tell me everything in detail.” The modest told the whole story exactly as it had happened.
The teacher asked again—"Now tell me about the grounds of your un predictions."
The modest—"Sir, by your grace I observed carefully that the foot prints belonged to an elephant. However, the distance between the sun spot where it urinated and the foot prints made me deduce that it was a female, not male. When I looked at the trees on both sides of 5 the path I found signs of leaves and fruits snatched only from th
trees on the right hand side. The trees on the left were intact. This 2 मतिज्ञान (वैनयिकी बुद्धि)
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