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outside his house in a dark corner. Next day he called the patient, gave him a strong purgative, and told him to pass his stool in that bowl. When the patient did as told, the doctor drew the bowl in light and pointing at the dead chameleon in the pot said - "See, this is the chameleon that has been causing you so much pain since long. Now it has been expelled and soon you will regain your health. The patient was relieved and pleased. As he became free of his phobia he regained his health.
7. The Crow - Roaming around in Vennatat city a Buddhist monk met a Jain shraman. In order to pull his leg he posed a question tothe Jain shraman - "Muniraj! Your Arhat is omniscient. You are his able disciple. Can you give me 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 too 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 elephant in it? After many days passed, a man came and claimed that he will find the exact weight of the elephant. With the help of the king's men he took the elephant to the lake outside the town. He then arranged to bring a large boat near the shore and with the help of a gang-plank made the elephant walk into the boat. He marked the level to which the boat had submerged in water and brought back the elephant to shore. After this he started filling the boat with stones till the boat once again submerged up to the marked level. Now he transferred all the stone on shore and started weighing them with the help of a normal weighing scale. Some time later, when the weighing was over he added up the figures and told the exact weight of the elephant. The man was taken to the king
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Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
