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activities Chulni and Deerghaprishta cooked up a conspiracy. They planned to secretly construct a beautiful house of shellac and send Brahmadatt to live in that house after his marriage. On the honeymoon night the house was to be set to fire burning the newly wedded couple. Blinded by her lust the queen also agreed to kill her
own son.
Minister Dhanu came to know of this plan through his spies. He went to Deerghaprishta and said "Sire, now that I have grown old
and unfit to look after the affairs of the state, I want to spend rest of my life indulging in religious worship and charitable activities. grant me leave." Thus, getting permission
Kindly
from
Deerghaprishta he went outside the city. On the banks of the Ganges he raised a large tent and started devotional activities including singing of hymns. There only, he opened a house of charity. Under the cover of these activities he secretly started digging an underground tunnel that was to open inside the house of shellac under construction.
A few days later when the house of shellac was ready, minister Dhanu's tunnel was also ready. Deerghaprishta and Chulni married Brahmadatt to the daughter of king Pushpachool. Minister Dhanu gave the responsibility of making all necessary arrangements for the comforts of the newly wedded couple to his son Vardhanu, who was now a minister. Vardhanu took the new couple to the house of shellac for their honeymoon. At midnight the spies of Deerghaprishta set the house to fire. When Brahmadatt saw the walls of his new palace melting, he rushed to Vardhanu's room and said "Friend, the palace is on fire and its walls are melting." Vardhanu reassured him"Friend, don't worry." And he took the new couple to minister Dhanu's camp through the tunnel.
Minister Dhanu explained the prince in details about the conspiracy of the queen and Deerghaprishta and advised Brahmadatt and Vardhanu to go to some safe place. The parinamiki buddhi of the minister saved the life of Brahmadatt.
(१०) क्षपक - एक बार एक वयोवृद्ध तपस्वी मुनि भिक्षा के लिए अपने शिष्य के साथ जा रहे थे। लौटते समय अनजाने में उनके पैर के नीचे दबकर एक मेंढक मर गया। शिष्य ने यह देखा तो उसने गुरु से प्रतिक्रमण करने के लिए कहा । तपस्वी ने ध्यान नहीं दिया । सन्ध्या
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