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did I have in my previous birth with the old woman of Ujjaini, so that she brought and bred me up as my mother ? How did Tilottama get so much tove for me that she replaced her father's letter's by anoiher frabricated letter and saved me ? Oh ! She not only saved me but she also made me her life-companion. What enmity I had with Sheth Vrudhdhdatt that he attempted to kill me ?”
The waves of such thought were rising up in the heart of Sheth Champak. At that very moment Kevali Muni, the knower of everything, said to all as follows:
"Oh grand souls ! In order to explain to you the nature of good and bad deeds, I tell you the story of two births of one soul. Listen it carefully.”
Kevali Bhagwan then told that story as follows :
"In a holy forest near a city called
