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245 my wealth. I feel extremely pained by your sinful act of this sort."
The Muni remained silent and asked what that Krishnapakshika had done.
THE BREACH OF TRUST BY A
MINISTER Kunchika Sheth began to narrate the story :
“There was a city named Prithvibhusan. The king Shuklapaksha ruled there. The name of the Principal Queen was Shubhparinama Krishnapakshika was the minister to the king. The king and the minister were of mutually-contradictory nature. The king was religious, merciful, truth-speaking and popular, but the minister was merciless, irreligious, cruel, fradulent and sophist.
Once, a trader dealing in horses came to the city. He presented one
