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beautiful mare which went for grazing out-side the town. Seeing her hot-blooded a horse mated her on the mountain.
2. She returned to the town and was marked by the minister as endowed with all good signs and pregnant. He protected ber, kept her in his mansion and fed her on oily eatables. On a pleasant and sweet day, a beautiful colt, swift like the wind, was born to her. Sky-coloured, tall, curved-faced, slender in the middle and broad in chest, with long sneeze and terrific neighing, fit for the harness, copper-like in palate, fickle in eyes and having soft hair in ears, it grew up in a few days. It appealed very much to the mind of the minister. It could not be matched by the heat of the sun or the wind. As it lived kept in an earthly house, a free parrot was watching it. As long as the young one of the mountain horse, mightily victorious, remained in the womb, a certain Khecara, assuming the form of a parrot, watched it day after day.
3. The Khecara become a parrot and established itself on the mountain-peak. With hundreds of pleasures as the wanderer of the sky, affectionately attached to its mate, as it lived happily and enjoyed pleasures for long, a good looking cowherd, virtuous, well-behaved, sportive like an infatuated elephant and having stout and long arms, came into the forest and sat there busy in amusement. He Was seen by the parrot with its eyes possessing good qualities, and was wilfully addressed in soft words moving the heart, "You take me, oh cowherd, and carry me instantly to the town and going to the king give me to him for five hundred gold.
4. Hearing that speech and thinking over it the wise one, with the parrot which was humble, submissive and respectable in mind, came quickly to the town. Throwing his sight, in a moment he saw there & prosperous merchant caught by a brothel-keeper who was telling him in sweet words, You are a prince; do not became ignorant. Your eldest son, in dream, has slept with my daughter as she slept at home, at ease, unattached and in peaceful harmony. Give wealth to her setting aside your pride.' The great noise of this spread through the market. No man was able to extricate the merchant as he stood being caught.
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