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for an opportunity to talk about this. His father also wanted to give tell his: mind's inner doubts. One day he said :
"Son ! Not a single recluse-like king has ever ascended the throne of Ujjainee before you. How will you run the state by remaining in such a mood of renunciation ?”,
Samaraditya replied in a polite tone :
"My dear father ! It is not necessary that what has not happened till yesterday or to-day, should not happen to-morrow. If an illiterate father thinks that because no one in my family has so far got any education, why should I study or impart education to my son ? If he thinks like that, then the education will perish.
Similarly, is a son of a poor man 'thinks like this that because my father was. poor. I will also not earn · wealth, then how much more miserable the life.
