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enough; it is my duty as a wife not to let my husband's effort be in vain ; let them have my body also," and she plunged down into the fire and was burned to death.
Then the three baby-birds, when they saw what was done, and that there was still not enough food for the three guests, said, “Our parents have done what they could and still it is not enough. It is our duty to carry on the work of our parents ; let our bodies go too." And they all dashed down into the fire also.
The three people could not eat these birds, and they were amazed at what they saw. Some: how or other they passed the night without food, and in the morning the king and the Sannyasin showed the princess the way, and she went back to her father.
Then the Sannyasin said to the king, “King, you have seen that each is great in his own place. If you want to live in the world live like those bịrds, ready at any moment to sacrifice yourself for others. If you want to renounce the world.be
