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Updated: June 27, 2025
He soon saw there was some secret in King Karan's endless wealth, and never rested until he had found it out. So, one day, hidden close by, he saw King Karan enter the faqir's house and pop into the boiling oil.
'I never was devilled in my life! shouted the King; 'you must have eaten somebody else! 'That's just what I was saying to myself! returned the faqir sleepily; 'I thought it couldn't be only the spices that -Snore, snore, snore! 'Look here! cried King Karan, in a rage, shaking the faqir,'you must eat me too!
In fact, the faqir made no bones at all over the affair, which, it must be confessed, was very convenient both for the breakfast and the breakfast eater. Nevertheless, it was of course not pleasant to be popped alive every morning into a great frying-pan of boiling oil; and for my part I think King Karan earned his hundredweight of gold handsomely.
So King Karan set the wild swans at liberty, and as the pair of them flew away to the great Mansarobar Lake, they sang as they went, 'Glory to Bikramajit! the generous Bikramajit! Then King Karan hung his head, and said to himself, 'The swans' song is true!
Finally Manama told the spirits to allow him to go, so they made a chain of the leaves of the karan grass and tied it to his legs. Then they let him down slowly head first, and when he reached the ground he was no longer a man but an owl. The Story of the Creation In the very beginning there lived a being so large that he can not be compared with any known thing.
"The men gathered close around the poles, but the women and children stood at a distance. Karan took his stand just back and to the right of the victim, and Umook stood in front on the left side.
'Couldn't! nodded the holy but satisfied faqir, 'really not another morsel no, thanks! 'Then give me my gold! shrieked King Karan; 'you're bound to do that, for I'm ready to fulfil my part of the contract! 'Sorry I can't oblige, but the devil I mean the other person went off with the coat! nodded the faqir.
He saw him frizzle and sizzle, he saw him come out crisp and brown, he saw the hungry and holy faqir pick the bones, and, finally, he saw King Karan, fat and jolly as ever, go down the mountain side with his hundredweight of gold! Then Bikru knew what to do! So the very next day he rose very early, and taking a carving-knife, he slashed himself all over.
He bound and tied the man, and after a conference with Karan, Dianon agreed to turn over his prisoner for the sacrifice if paid five agongs and one gun. The woman Sololin had planted this sugar-cane and is reported to have eaten some of it just prior to her death. The cane stolen was from the patch, but the informant could not say whether or not this had anything to do with later developments.
Hearing this, King Karan returned home in despair and ordered the royal treasurer to send him gold; so that day he ate his breakfast in peace. And the next day also, by ransacking all the private treasuries, a hundredweight of gold was forthcoming; so King Karan ate his breakfast as usual, though his heart was gloomy.
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