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Hearing these words, Bharat said to the boy, raising a sword in his mind, "Where is it?" The boy then pointed out to the shadow and said, "I have caught him here."
Seeing the shadow, the acrobat got wild and concluded that there was no real man going out of his house on the previous occasion also; and he was sorry for believing that his wife was faithless. So, he began to be kind and caring to her again.
One day, Rohak went to the city of Ujjain with his father. After moving about in the city, Bharat went back leaving his son on the banks of the river. The boy lived there. He drew a picture of the city in the sands of the river-bank with his fingers. The king saw the picture drawn by the boy. He was highly impressed by this skill of the boy. The king then wanted to test the boy as he wanted a clever minister.
He, therefore, called for all the acorbats of his kingdom and said, "There is a big slab of stone outside your village. I want you to convert it into a throne for me without displacing it."
All the acrobats were puzzled at this difficult task. Rohak heard of the king's order and so he asked the people to dig under the slab and plant pillars under the slab to support it. The king was pleased to note that Rohak's ingenuity was responsible for creating that wonderful throne.
Then he asked the people to see that a goat given to them should neither increase nor decrease in its weight after a fortnight.
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