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Gulabchandji Dhadha Sona:—What were you in your previous life? Siddha:- I was a parrot. .
Sona:- Where did you live ? Siddha:-In Siddhawad.
Taking this to be a childish freak Sona did not press the matter further. She related the whole incident to me and my brother. On our questioning him the boy repeated the same tale and thenceforth he was always after us to take him to the sacred hill. And in the meanwhile, with his daily savings he had collected some rupees and kept them carefully in order that he may spend them at Siddhachalji. ON OUR WAY TO SIDDHACHALJI AND THE
BOY'S TRIALS.
Having got a serious attack of Asthma in the last quarter of 1911 A. D. my doctors advised me for a change. I took the Kathiawad Fast Passenger in the morning for Wadhwan and the boy was jubilant at the prospect of paying homage to the sacred hill.
In order to test the veracity of his assertion I questioned the boy on reaching Palghar station if the range of hills close by was the sacred hill. The reply was an emphatic “ No," I repeated the same question on reaching Surat and received the same reply. At about 10 P. M. we reached Viramgam and being unable to proceed further we got down and stayed during night in the waiting-room. On my telling the boy that we have reached our destination, I again got the reply in the negative. FURTHER TRIALS AT WADHWAN CAMP WHERE ABOUT
15000 PERSONS COME TO SEE THE BOY Next day we went to Wadhwan Camp and stayed in Limdi utara for about two months. The boy always attracted attention of the people when he repeated Chaitya-Vandan and Stavan in the temple and sat all attention to hear the sermons preached by monks in their short sojourn from Gujrat to Kathiawad and vice versa. Once after a short time of our stay in Wadhwan, it so happened that when the boy was
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