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Sheth Kath promised the parrot that he would not divulge the secret any-where.
The merchant Kath was sitting in his shop with the cage and the pair of birds, when an ascetic came there. It so happened that one straw from the roof of the shop came down and fell upon the head of the ascetic.
Taking the straw in his hand he spoke, “Due to which sins of mind this has fallen on me ? Because uptil now I have not taken a single straw without anybody's giving it. Today unknowingly I have become a thief. I will therefore, out off my head.”
Telling in this way the ascetic took a sword and became ready to commit Suicide. At that time people prevented him doing so.
The merchant Kath thought : *This ascetic seems to be a
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