“We will go to the tree tomorrow and ask about this.” The king decided.
After that, both Dharmabuddhi and Dushtabuddhi came back home. Dushtabuddhi goes to his father and tells him all that had happened. Then Dushtabuddhi gives some money to his father. “Hide inside the tree trunk and pretend that you are the tree talking to us.”
The father agreed to this.
At night, Dushtabuddhi placed his father inside the tree and then went home.
In the morning, the two brothers and the officers from the king’s court went near the tree.
“Who has taken the coins that were buried here?” They all asked the tree.
Everyone was shocked when the tree replied. “Dharmabuddhi has taken away the coins that were hidden here.”
Adapted from the Katha Sarith Sagara
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