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94. PINGALA BETRAYS HIMSELF
In a certain part of the country there was a big tank which that region considered to be a precious possession. It supplied water not only for drinking purposes but also for irrigation. But every year, during the rains the tank burst and the king of the place wondered how to prevent it from bursting every year like this. Pingala, a brown haired man also having brownish complexion, said to the king, "If you could get a man with brown hair and brown beard and looking brown all over, you bury him at the spot where the tank bursts and I am sure, this will be the proper remedy." They all looked around for the man so described till the prince, who was also the minister to the king, looked at the man carefully and declared that that precisely was the man they had needed. Pingala was caught, killed and buried.
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