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The family members of the Sheth were thinking :
"It is not known what great offence the Sheth has committed. Can the offence be so great that we all should also be made to suffer the hardships of prison pas
Sheth Balsar was not ashamed of his misdeeds. He had to remain in prison, but he never thought himself to be guilty. He only thought that his imprisonment was on act of injustice on the part of the king.
He began to consider how he could take revenge on Sidhdhraj for his injustice. The nature of a cobra is strange. It often raises its hood. Unless and until its hood is completly crushed, it would not forget to raise it. Sheth Balsar was also of such nature.
Balsar had a friend named Somchand. He came to see him in the prison. Balsar said to his freind :
