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AJATSHATRU KUNIK When Kunik became a youth, he was married to a princess named Padmavati.
Near Rajagriha was a large forest where roamed a large herd of elephants. It had a larger percentage of she-elephants. The king-elephant was cruel and suspicious. Whenever a female gave birth to a male baby the elephant would crush it to a cruel death
Yes! There would be no male elephant
left to subdue me and become the 7 king of this herd when I grow old.
One day a female in the herd became pregnant. She thought
This cruel elephant
will crush my baby 102
too under his feet.
I should do something
Next day she started limping to remain behind the moving herd. The elephant saw this. She is limping, must have hurt
her leg.
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He moved ahead with indifference.
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