Parabels of Mahavir

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

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SOM What are you saying-or rathor, trying to say ? Has something gone wrong with you ?
WEAVER
Everything has gone wrong with youyou are a fool-you are a blind man! You do not know what I am sayingwhat I am trying to say ! Go! and I give you my word that once we have the two halves I shall wed them in such a way as to cancel the truth that they had ever been parted! and when I have united the two, it will cover up the nakedness of our penurv !
SOM I don't still understand.... jesting apart, tell me, Brother Birju ! why are you so keen about this union of the two pieces. How is it going to cover up the nakedness of our penury ?
WEAVER Two pieces become one shall lead to two shares of the sum it shall receive at the