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your praise." The king asked with surprise—“Do you have any proof 5 of this?” Shaktar at once said "The verses he recites are the same as 4 I hear my daughters recite every morning. If you so desire, I can 41 prove this tomorrow in the assembly.” The king granted permission"All right, call them to the assembly tomorrow."
Next morning Shaktar took all his seven daughters to the assembly. As usual, Vararuchi came and recited his new panegyric. As soon as the recital concluded Shaktar gestured at his eldest daughter, Yaksha. She got up, stepped forward and repeated
Vararuchi's poem verbatim. Now Shaktar gestured at his second 4 daughter. By now she had listened to the poetry twice and fi
memorized. She also stepped ahead and repeated the poem. This way, one after the other, all the seven daughters of Shaktar repeated
Vararuchi's poetry. The king now believed what Shaktar had told i him. He got angry and told Vararuchi never to come to the assembly $
again. 5 Vararuchi could well understand that this was Shaktar's $ conspiracy. He resolved to take revenge from Shaktar. He cleverly 4 i fixed a wooden plank on the banks of the Ganges in such a way that
its one end was submerged in water and the other was on the shore.
If a little pressure was applied on a specific spot on the plank the 4 submerged portion rose to the surface of water. He placed a bag full of 45 gold coins on the submerged portion and sitting on the other end 4 started singing hymns for goddess Ganga. When the hymns
concluded he bowed down to pay homage to the goddess and furtively pressed the plank. At once the other end surfaced with the bag full of
gold coins. People standing around saw all this and looked at 15 4 Vararuchi in surprise. Vararuchi commented—“What if the king does 4
i not reward me, mother Ganges does so." 4 The news spread in the town like wild fire. When the king came to
i know of this astonishing incident he called and asked Shaktar about 1 $ it. Shaktar said—“It is better to see with one's own eyes before i
believing in hearsay. If you permit, come morning we may go and % witness the miracle ourselves." 1 After giving this advise to the king, Shaktar returned to his
residence and called one of his spies. He gave him instructions to go
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