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was in this state. When he regained consciousness, he thought the people would ask him the reason for this state and he would tell them it was the result of a gall bladder malfunctioning, thereby hiding the truth.
When he got to know about his five past lives, he remembered his own brother of the five births who on account of karmas, was born elsewhere in this birth. Thinking of the fact that for five births they were together and in the sixth birth they were born separately, he would feel very sad and wonder in this sixth birth in what why and in what form was that brother born. In the end he found a way and he made an announcement across his vast kingdom that the person who would complete the fourth part of the quatrain, he would give half his kingdom to him. The lines were as under:
d s dasa aes, miy k limjare age hams mayamga tr e, sov g k sibhumie dey ya devaloyammi, si amhe mahiddhiy
(We were two slaves, deers, swans, peacocks, in K
... and gods...)
With the greed of gaining half the kingdom many people tried to solve the puzzle, and as a result the half quatrain was on everyone's lips.
One day, a great rama a monk named Citta, wandering about, reached K mpilya city, and seeing a quiet place in a beautiful garden, became meditative there. The gardener was watering the plants there and mumbling the lines of the half-quatrain. Hearing the lines from the gardener's mouth an agitation and h - poha emerged in the monk's mind and he remembered his past life. He too could clearly see his past five lives. Resolving the puzzle, he made the gardener learnt by rote the remaining lines -
im
o cha hiy j , a
ama
ehim j vi
(This is the sixth birth of ours, separated from each other)
The gardener recited all the four lines in front of Brahmadatta. Hearing those words Brahmadatta fell unconscious. Seeing this, the gardener got worried and said "these lines are not mine, but a monk who has come
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