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barber, got Canranäs head clean-shaved, beat her severely, applied iron chains tightly to her feet, locked her in a distant part of the house and while closing the doors tightly after her she told all the servants of the house:- 'lf any one informs the Śétha about chis incident, he will have the same punishment, Even if śátha makes inquiries with great pertinacity, none should say out the truth." Instructing all the servents repeatdly in this way, Mūlā Śéthānî came back.
When in the evening Dhanāvaha setha Inquired from servents "Where is Candanā" Done answered him ibrough fear from Mūlä Sethāni. Thereby Setha thought, She must be playing on the terrace," Similarly after inquiring about her, Setha thought:- She must be asleep.' On the second day Caudana was not to be seen. On the third day, when Dhapāvaba Setha becoming greatly disturbed made ir uries from his sorvents and when he could not get any irrintzion, he had in grave doubt about if some one may bave called her" Becoming very angry Seths told them:- Ab! give me the true account about Candanâ; otberwise I will punish you will my own hands This false show of fraud does not in the least indicais your cieverness," On hearing these angry words of setha. an old maid servant thought:-' I have lived sufficiently long; iny death is near. What is Mūlà going to do with ne? Let me say out the true account of Candanā to setha. Let that poor girl live longer in exchange of my lise. All dharma sästras (systems of religiou) proclaim that the giving of protection to the lives of living beings is a great punya (meritorious act).” With tbis idea in her mind, she told the true story about Candand to the śétba, and she showed him the distant apartment of the house in which Candanã was locked up. Dbanävaha setba went there and opened the door of the apartment. On seeing candană - with her bead shaved, with her body distressed with hunger and destitute of her beauty like a lotusgarland crushed under the feet of an intoxicated elephant, the śejha with his yes flooded with an active flow of tears said:
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