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ped in the food. But he did not come to know of it. As soon as he took the dinner, the poison spread throughout his whole body. We made remedies through a person knowing mantras, but it was all in vainThat person said: "He will not live for more than a month. As a result of the effect of poison all his limbs will graduaally be dried up and broken." I started out to find you. As good fortune would have it, I have found you to-day. It is today one month since I left the house. Who knows what must have become of him? I do not know whether he would be alive or not."While speaking these words,. tears began to drop from the eyes of the father.
Keshav was pained by sweet memory of his brother. He thought: "How can I reach to-day only to my brother who is four hundred miles away? With this. thought he was drowned in anxiety. At that time the God of Fire carried both
