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227 Wealth, because you are as generous as Vaisravana himself. Number 2 must be a căndăla because you are like a cāndāla to your enemies when you are aroused to anger. The third must be a washerman because like a washerman you wring every thing out of your enemies. The fourth must be a scorpion because when you woke me up from my sleep this morning, by poking me with your stick, I thought it was a scorpion that stung me mercilessly and the fifth must be your own royal father because as his son you dispense justice as it should be dispensed". The king made no comment on this and quietly went through all his morning duties before he went to see his mother. He humbly bowed to her and put her the question by whom or by how many he had been begotten. The mother looked perturbed and asserted that it was only by his well known father that he was begotten. The king was sure that Rohaka would not go wrong and indulge in lies, so he asked her again to tell him the truth. Then she told him, "Look. When you were in my womb I had gone out in the garden to worship Vaisravana. When I saw that handsome Yaksa and touched him by my hand, I was mad with passion and desired to have a sexual intercourse with him. Asl was coming back home, I saw a beautiful candāla youth who also awoke in me similar sexual desire. When further on I saw a washerman, 1 longed for him also. When I came back home, I took a scorpion made of wheat flour in my hand to eat it as was the custom, but by his touch my passion was aroused again and I wanted to copulate with him. So you see I do not know whether a mere wish on my part has made them all your fathers. In reality however as the world knows you have been begotten only by your father."
The king went back to his palace and announced the appointment of Rohaka as the head of the Council of his Ministers.
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