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better to obey her.”
He thus agreed with her contention and became engrossed in the work of ruling.
On this side, the real king was wandering in the form of elephant. The elephant began to walk towards his city. Now the wicked minister was all the while cautious about elephant, because he knew that the real king was now an elephant. So he had already ordered the policemen to slay at once the elephants, trying to enter the city.
So when, the King in the form of an elephant advanced towards the city, the soldiers pounced upon it. The elephant ran. The King's soul inside realised that it was not safe to remain alive in the body of an elephant. So he entered the body of a deer. Now the soldiers were ordered to kill the deer. So the King entered the tiny body of a parrot.
