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paddy from one of the bags returned to where Dhanya was and said, “Here, father ! here are those five grains of paddy.”
Thereupon the merchant asked her to tell him under oath if they were the same grains that he gave her five years ago?”
Ujjhikā – “No, father ! they are not the same, they are different." Dhanya – “Well ! whatever happened to the grains I gave you to preserve and protect?' Ujjhikā - "Father ! when you gave me those grains I had agreed to preserve and protect them as you had asked me to but when I went to my chamber and thought that the granary was full of paddy, so, what was the use of preserving and protecting merely those five grains. I could give you the grains out of the granary when you asked for them”, I thought. “Thinking like this, I threw those grains away and brought these grains from the granary to give them to you."
Hearing this, the merchant was very angry and fuming with anger and in front of all the family and friends and well-wishers, admonished her and appointed her the cleaning woman of the house and said, “You are very apt at throwing away things. Therefore, this is the only job fit for you. Henceforth, you will clean and collect all the refuge from the house and throw it away, as is your wont.” Everyone present there also discredited her for her carelessness and frivolity. She accepted her assignation with much shame and censure.
Bhogavati's Bungling
Then he called the second daughter-in-law, Bhogavatī, and asked her to return the five grains of paddy that he had given her five years ago. Bhogavatī, too brought five grains of paddy from
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