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your sins. You should recite mahamantra with a pure heart. Only by these means you shal! be free from this worst state."
After returning to his palace the king did all that the saint asked him to do mahabal also prayed to the god that he should cute the king speedily.
The god cured the king. But a part of the sin still remained in the mind of the king. He thought to himself :
“This is all due to the wickedness of Vaidya Sidhdhraj. It is he who has humiliated me in the whole city. I shall now get heace only ofter I kell. him.”
Sinful thoughts again returned in the mind of the king, As soon as such a thought came into his mind, there broke out a great fire in the stable of horses of the king.
There was great commotion everywhere. All were afraid that that fire will
