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52. A JAIN MONK AND A BUDDHIST
NUN
In a certain city, a Buddhist nun, a young woman boasted before the king that she possessed such skill that she could do anything that any other man had done. The king said he would arrange a contest. So he made a public announcement with the usual drum beat. A Jain monk, a young boy. was on his way to collect alms heard the announcement and decided to challenge the Buddhist nun. He accordingly went to the king's court and the nun looking at the little boy made faces at him and asked contemptuously, "Tell me how do we start ?"
Every one in the court looked on with great eagerness and the boy quietly showed his penis. The nun could not do just this and every one in the court shouted victory for the boy. Then the boy completed the victory by urinating in such a way as to draw a lotus on the ground. The nun could not do that either. She had to'accept her defeat and feel humiliated in the king's court.
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