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'minister turned king' refused outright such wastage of money.
So Nivrutti took out her ring and gave it to the maid-servant. Its cost was more than one lakh gold coins. The parrot was thus purchased. It was kept in a golden cage. When the minister in the body of the king knew this, he immediately came to the palace of Nivrutti. Without telling anything, he took out the parrot from the cage and sprained its neck to death. The queen became very angry and said.
"What have you done this? I had purchased it from my own money. You had no enmity either with me or with the parrot. You loved your money and not a paise has been spent from your treasury. what right have you to destroy a thing Which belongs to me? I can't live without this parrot. Either you make it or prepare a funerel pyre for me. I die."
The minister was really in a fix :
alive
will
