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One day, one female-elephant came there with one man. The man took out the iorn-peg from the elephant's foot. the elephant, freed from pain became very glad and gave to the man the pearls of elephants as a reward. The man returned home with those precious things. His days of poverty were over. He rolled in wealth.
The King of that city was surprised to find such a poor man turned rich, all of sudden. He called that man and asked him the cause of his prosperity. The man narrated the whole incident how he got those pearls.
The King thought that such an elephant worth-seeing and virtuous should be in the Royal stables. So he sent many soldiers to the forest who caught the elephant, Chained him and thus the elephant was made a slave of the stable.
O Muni! Thus you have returned
