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The soldiers
arrested the
Brahmin
and the king ordered that he should be hanged.
The soldiers were taking him to the place of the gallows. On his way, the Brahmin began to repent that he did not put trust in the advice of the monkey, the tiger and the snake. 'The goldsmith is really wicked person and I made a mistake of saving him.'
In these feeling of remorse, some two lines in verse slipped out from his mouth; the verse meant that when I did not pay heed to the advice of the tiger, the monkey and the snake, I am now being dragged: to death by the goldsmith.
Just near the place where the Brahmin uttered these words, there was a hole in the ground wherein lived a snake. It came out and recognised the Brahmin. The snake ran fast and thought out a plan to save the Brahmin. The princess was
