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identical Kärmic actions, they became four hundred and ninety- ; nine thieves assembled in one locality and they lived in a rugged mountain-range.
The gold-smith, after death, was born as a tiryanca (brute). His wife who was killed first, was, after spending one life as a brute, born as a boy in the family of a Brähmin. When the boy became five years old, the soul of the goldsmith, coming out from his life as a brute, was born as a girl-a sister of the fiveyear old boy-in the family of the same Brāhmin. The boy, being five years old, was made a play-mate of the girl. The girl being wicked, was crying constantly One day, while gently shampooing the lower part of the girl's abdomen, the boy accidently passed his finger into the vaginal orifice of the girl, and she, at once, ceased crying The boy thought that he had found out the best method of quieting the girl So, whenever the girl cried, he at once poked his finger into the girl's vaginal orifice to quiet her.
When, one day, the parents of the girl, saw him doing the prank, they beat him and turned hun out from their house. He went away to the secret colony of robbers where the four hundred and ninety-nine thieves were living, and joined the gang.
Now, the girl also, became unchaste before attaining her youth, and wandering here and there at her own will and uncontrolled by anyone, she went away to another village. One day, that village was plundered by the gang of five hundred thieves, and that girl was made a captive and brought to the colony. She was made the common wife of all the five hundred thieves. One day, the thieves thought :-"Being the wife of so many, persons, she may sonie day dic of exhaustion; if we get another woman, she may get some rest" With this idea, they, one day, brought another woman to the colony. From the moment, the other woman was brought there, the Brāhmin girl was burning with malice, and she was always finding out opportunities of killing her.
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