Setubandha

Author(s): H C Bhayani, Markand Dave
Publisher: Kalikal Sarvagya Shri Hemchandracharya Navam Janmashatabdi Smruti Sanskar Shikshannidhi Ahmedabad

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The Girl who came back from the Dead
In ancient times there was a beautiful girl, the daughter of a good man, a woman among women, rare in here loveliness and in the delicacy of her nature.
When she was of marriageable age, three young men, each apparently of the highest capacities and of great promise, sought her hand.
Having decided that they were of equal merit, the father left the final choice to her.
But months passed and the girl did not seem to be making up her mind.
And one day she suddenly fell ill. Within a few hours she
was dead.
The three young men, united in grief, took her body to a cemetery and buried it in the deepest of silent agony.
The first youth made the graveyard his home, spending his nights there in sorrow and meditation, unable to understand the workings of the fate which had taken her away.
The second youth took to the roads and wandered throughout the world in search of knowledge, as a fakir.
The third young man spent his time in consoling the bereaved father.
Now the youth who had become a fakir, in his journeyings came across a certain place where a man repute in uncanny arts resided. Continuing his search for knowledge, he presented himself at the door, and was admitted to the table of the master of the house.
When the host invited him to eat, he was about to start the meal when a small child started to cry. It was the grandson of the wise man.
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