HARIRAMA
Bethal narrated one more story. There lived a brahmin Keshavaswamy in Ayodhya. His son was Harirama. He was brought up well. He was married to a girl born in a good family.
One day Harirama was sleeping with his wife in the balcony of his house. A Gandharva who was flying in the sky was fascinated by the beauty of Hariram's wife. He kidnapped her.
Hariram when he woke up in the morning found his wife not there. He searched her in the entire house. He found that she is miss ing. He cried for her. He was unable to stay in the house without his wife. So he went to pilgrimage to have some peace of mind.
One day Hariram a was very hungry. He went to a brahmin's house and begged his wife. She gave Harirama a vessel full of cooked rice. Harirama thanked to lady and brought out the vessel near a pond. He intended to wash his hands before he could eat. He kept the rice under the shade of a tree. He went to the pond to clean his hands. At that time there was a bird sitting on the branch on of the tree. There was a snake in its mouth. The snake was suffering as it was about to die. A few drops of poison of the snake fell directly on the vessel containing cooked rice. The rice was fully poisoned. Hariama who was not aware of this ate the cooked rice and died soon.
Bethal who narrated this story asked Vikram to tell him the cause of the death of Hariram and whose fault is there in his death, otherwise his head will cut into pieces.
"Betal, there is no fault of anybody here. Though the poison killed Harirama, the snake was in the mouth of the bird. The snake was the food for the bird. The bird was eating it. Both are innocent. The woman who gave Harirama the cooked rice did the job to sat isfy his hunger. So all these three are guilt less. The guilty here is that whoever put the blame on either the snake, the bird or the woman" Vikram replied.
As soon as the king has given the answer, the vampire slipped to off his shoulder with the corpse and glided up to the tree.
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