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ting the plants and small trees.
Then the huts were broken. The hermits began to despise Sechanak and said:
"How unfaithful is this elephant? The hermitage made him grow as a leader and now he desroys it !"
"O' muni! You have behaved similarly with me." Said Kunchika.
Muni "What happened next ?"
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Kunchika: "The complaint reached the king. The prince Nandishen challenged the elephant.
But these both had relation of previous births. The memory was revived and so Sechanak followed the paince. Similarly one minister Krishnaprkshika had shown. unfaithfulness. You have also, like that minister paid me in terms of wickeness in return for my kindness. You have
been ungraeteful to me and
have stolen
