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always filled with kinship and compassion. Therefore, everyone appeared to him as a friend. He had no idea that Adharchandra was behaving in a maleficent manner towards him.
Once Adharchandra planned a secret and underhand scheme. He arranged for a couple of miscreants and an immoral woman from another town to participate in his plan. The plan was that the woman should dishonour Ramatanu by wrongly blaming him of misconduct and create a commotion and then Adharchandra and his colleagues would attack Ramatanu in the name of saving the woman. They picked a day to put their plan in action.
One afternoon, as Ramatanubabu was returning home, the woman was awaiting his arrival in a small uninhabited lane at a predetermined place. As soon as Ramatanu passed through the lane, the woman created a stir, screaming, "You scoundrel! Leave me! You are a Brahmin and yet you misbehave with me like this? You wish to molest me? Help!.... Help!..... Someone, please help me! ....”. Saying so, she came very close to Ramatanubabu and disarrayed her clothes. Adharchandra and the rogues, came out of their hiding place and created a pandemonium. He started abusing and beating Ramatanubabu. The rogues followed suit. Ramatanubabu was utterly shocked. He could not understand what was happening and why. Hearing the commotion, people from the neighbouring homes came out. A big crowd gathered.
People were aware that Ramatanubabu was a courteous and honourable man. Everyone respected him because he had been helpful to almost everyone in
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