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124. MIRACULOUS INDEED!
In a certain village temple there came a group of wandering mendicants that normally wandered from place to place. In the evening a villager asked them to tell the villagers of any extraordinary event they had come across as they went from one place to another.
A wandering mendicant said that he did have something strange to describe but he would not do it in the presence of any Jain layman. He was assured there was none around. So the wandering man began :
At one place, a coastal place it was, I saw a large tree spreading out its branches in all directions. Those that overhung the sea dropped their leaves on the sea and quickly they all became acquatic animals. And those that spread over land dropped the leaves on the ground. They became land-animals.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" said one of the villagers. "The land of the Creator, indeed." "Please tell us what happened to the leaves that fell in the middle ?"
Suspecting him to be a Jain layman, the wandering mendicant snapped back, "Didn't I say this was not meant for the ears of a Jain ?"
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