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AJATSHATRU KUNIK The pregnant female caught up with the herd after three days. The elephant believed her and saidShe explained to the elephant
All right. Rest Lord! I have
here till you get acute pain in my leg. I can't
relief. even move.
And her distance with the herd increased
The she-elephant came to a hermitage at the edge of the forest. Considering her to be sick, the hermits allowed her to remain there. At last she gave birth to a beautiful male baby.
How beautiful this elephant is!
WW
Volyniniu
IS
A few days later she left the baby elephant and rejoined her herd.
The hermits looked after the baby elephant. He played with them and they fed him bananas and other vegetables.
He used to fill water in his trunk and sprinkle at the plants in the hermitage. This action inspired a hermit
This baby elephant has become
our sechanak.
Since then all hermits called him Sechanak.
# Sechanak = one who waters the plants.
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