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prepared for this, then everything would be all right. if you refuse to do it, the King will soon lose interest in you.”
agreed, the paramour returned to her place. On the morrow, she had her hair tonsured and sat bare-bodied on a donkey and did everything what she was asked to by Mahadev i.e. the bird. Being attracted by the beating sound of the drum and sweet-meats, people came to see her. When she was passing by the palace, in accompaniment to the sound of the drum, the King came to know about it. Out of curiosity, the King sent a sentinel to enquire about it. The sentinel on return stood with his head bowed down. he was too ashamed to tell anything to the King. On being repeatedly ordered, the sentinel told the King all about it. Enraged, the King said, “Never allow that prostitute into the garden of the Palace.” and the King’s order was readily carried out.
When the foolish woman returned home in the afternoon, totally exhausted, she was surprised to see the door closed and the sentinel did not allow her to enter there. she seemed to have been struck by lightning. she burst into tears, but there was no other way-out left to her. she remembered the words of Mahadev. she hastened to the temple and struck her head on its door and expressed her agonies,
That very time, the parrot while perching on a tree, said:
शठं प्रतत शाठ्ं कुय्रात्, सािल्ं सिलं प्रतत।
त्वया मे मुच्डितं पक्षं, मया ते मुच्डितं लशिः॥
śaṭhaṃ prati śāṭhyaṃ kuryāt, sāralyaṃ saralaṃ prati, tvayā me muṇḍitaṃ pakṣaṃ, mayā te muṇḍitaṃ śiraḥ.
The meaning being—
Be cunning to the cunning,
Be simple to the simple
You got my wings cut and
In the same way I have got your head shaved (tonsured)
at sunrise on the 25th of Jaistha, we all paid our pranam at the feet of Baba. On that morrow, sriman (Master) Pratibhanath would be initiated by Baba, and in the evening Baba would leave Dighapatia. My elder sister was highly busy, and Pratibha was
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