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well. He anyhow prepared one rope and tied it down to one vessel. He lowered that into the well. When he drew it back, to his surprise, one monkey came
up.
Second time, a tiger and a snake came up along with the rope. All the three thanked the Brahmin. The monkey was a man in the previous birth. He remembered it and he warned the Brahmin that there was one very ungrateful in the well. He should not commit the mistake of taking that man from the well. They stayed at Mathura.
But after-wards, the Brahmin thought a man should help another man. So he threw the rope down and with its support that man Came out.
That man introduced himself asa goldsmith of Mathura. “Searching water I came here, my legslipped and I fell down in the well. As I caught hold of one branch of
