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giving you your share."
Due to helplessness and also greed that man stopped going. The thieves dug. out a hole. There became as much room as would permit one man to enter in. The four thieves were considering as to who should enter therein- At that very time the wall fell with a great noise. That man was crushed under that wall and died on the night of the eighth day. He could not see the morning of the ninth day. Therefore, one poet has said:
"Who can go to sleep and say that he shall definitely do a particuler thing after waking up the next morning ?"
Sadhudatt completed the story. He then said to Vrudhdhdatt :
"Brother! You have heard one won-derful story about the power of Fate. Now listen to another example-."
Sadhudatt began to tell another