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This doctor was a very famous healer who had saved the lives of many of Prasnajit's subjects. He told the king that a merchant named Matri-Datta was very ill, suffering greatly, but that he hoped to cure him by giving him the juice of a certain plant called nagaballa.
When the king heard that the doctor had ordered Matri-Datta to take the juice of the nagaballa plant, he cried "No more doctors need come to see me!" and after sending away the one who had told him what he wanted to know, he gave orders that Matri-Datta should be sent for at once. Can you guess why the king sent for the doctors?
Then he suddenly added: "When your doctor ordered you to take the juice of the nagaballa plant whom did you send to find it?" To this Matri-Datta replied trembling with fear: "My servant, O king, sought it in the forest; and having found it, brought it to me."
Have you guessed what the nagaballa plant had to do with finding out who had stolen the money and jewels? If you had been the king, what punishment would you have ordered for the thief? When the silence had lasted about ten minutes, the thief raised his head from the ground and looked at the king, who still said not a word.
Directly the servant entered the room and saw the king sitting on his throne, he fell upon his face at the foot of the steps, crying, "Mercy! mercy!" He was right to be afraid, for Prasnajit said to him in a loud voice: "Where are the gold and the jewels you took from the hole in the roots of a tree when you went to find the nagaballa plant for your master?"
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