Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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Occasionally proves she has a cactus
for a tongue ?
(laughs heartily) I am lazy, ever lazy And the world thinks I am crazy!
SOM'S WIFE This is not the time for song or jest, my husband! The Great Lord Mahavir has been granting dower upon dower upon dower to the people of the town; only you, born under evil planets....
SOM What! evil planets ? I shan't have that! my planets were kind when I made you my wife ! (laughs again)
SOM'S WIFE What are your planets today if not evil, since you alone in the whole town have been left without a gift received at his sacred hands? Listen!
(Som suddenly grows serious ) Even to receive nothing from Him would prove a precious boon; only go and