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In course of time, Bhadra became pregnant. She thought that it was due to the favour of the Yaksha. Then she gave birth to a beautiful child who was named “Devadatt" after the Yaksha. Bhadra used to lovingly fondle the child and felt happy.
One day Bhadra asked her servant Panthak to take her child for an outing. When the child was playing with the other children, Vijay, the robber, arrived there and kidnapped the child stealthily. The child was adorned with costly ornaments. The robber then killed the child and threw its dead body into a well and hid himself in the Maluka locality of the robbers.
Now Panthak began to look for the child but found him nowhere. He then informed his master of the loss of the child.
So the police chief of the town began to look for the kidnapper. He then arrested that robber Vijay and put him into prison.
Once Dhanna was involved in an act of smuggling and therefore he was sent to prison where Vijay had been lodged. Both of them were thus in the same barracks of the prison. Both of them were fettered together also.
One day the robber asked the merchant to give him food brought by Bhadra for her husband which was refused. Then the sheth wanted to ease himself. But the robber refused to go with him as he was not given food. The robber, however, agreed to go with him if the sheth was willing to share his food with him in future. 118
