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those five grains of paddy in many carts and vans?” Rohini - “It is like this, father ! In these five years, through successive cultivation, those five grains of paddy have become hundreds of pots full of paddy. Therefore, O'father ! I require many carts and vans to fetch them here.”
Then, the merchant, Dhanya, gave her many carts and vans. Taking those carts and vans she went to her parents' house and brought back those hundreds of pots full of paddy to the place where the council met.
As she drove through the town with those many carts and vans full of paddy, the towns-folks commented, “Behold the wise daughter-in-law of Dhanya, who can return five grains of paddy in so many carts and vans. Dhanya is fortunate to have a daughterin-law like her.”
When the carts and vans full of paddy were presented to the merchant, he was very happy and contented and accepted them with hearty satisfaction. Then and there he appointed Rohiņī as the chief of the household and declared her as capable of taking his place whenever the need arose.
The Moral Of The Story –
Concluding this story, the Lord said, “O'blessed ones ! like those four daughters-in-law of Dhanya, the monks and nuns are also of four types.
Those who take the monastic vows only to throw them to the winds are like Ujjhikā. They not only earn bad names for themselves in this world, but also endlessly wander in the cycle of mundane existence. Many a monk and nun and lay follower also makes fun of them.
The monks and nuns who take the vows, fall prey to the
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