| Volume - III |
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| Culture Course |
HARISCHANDRA |
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| The king said,
" Sir, I have just now given to you everything I had. Please give me a months time
and I shall earn enough money to pay you dakshina." The rishi said "All right!" and went away. Harischandra, his wife Chandramati, and their young son Rohitaswa, left the city without taking even a begging-bowl. They reached Kasi. There Harischandra sold his wife to a merchant to do household work and young Rohitaswa was left with her. Harischandra sold himself to a person whose job was to burn out the corpses that came to the ghat of river Ganga. Harischandra assisted him in the work. With the money so earned, he paid the rishi his dakshina. |
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