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5. HERMIT AND THE MOUSE
Once upon a time there was a Shiva temple in a city called Mahilaropya. A hermit named Tamrachood lived in a nearby room. He begged for alms and people filled his alms bowl with delicacies, eatables flavored with sugar. Everyday after eating to his fill, he hid the remaining food in the alms bowl. He hung it on a peg keeping it for the servant’s breakfast.
In that room, there lived a mouse named Hiranyaka. Hiranyaka, along with his friends ate the hermit’s left over food. The mouse nibbled the hermit’s food, however carefully he hid it. The hermit in
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