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There was a city named Dharmasthan on the banks of Yamuna. A king named Ganadhip ruled in that city. A sadhu named Keshav also lived there. The sadhu used to do japa and tapasya on the banks of river Yamuna. He had a daughter named Malti. She was very beautiful. When she became eligible for marriage, her mother, father and brother got worried about her marriage.
By chance one day when the sadhu had gone to the wedding procession of someone he knew and the brother had gone to study, a boy came to their house. The girl's mother, seeing his beauty and qualities, told him that she would marry her daughter to him.
On the other side, the girl's father also found another boy and he promised that boy to marry his daughter. Where the girl's brother had gone to study, he also promised a boy to marry his sister.
After some time, when the father and son gathered in the house, they saw that a third boy was also present there. Two boys had come with them. What should happen now? The sadhu, his son and his wife were very worried. By chance, the girl was bitten by a snake and she died. Her father, brother and those three boys ran around a lot, called a person who could remove the poison, but nothing came out of it. Everyone did their work and left.
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Grief-stricken, they took the girl to the crematorium and cremated her. One of the three boys picked up her bones and went to the forest as a fakir. The other tied a bundle of ashes and started living there in a hut. The third became a yogi and started roaming from country to country.
One day, the third boy who had become a yogi reached a city while wandering and sat down to eat at a woman's house. As soon as the woman came to serve food, her younger son caught hold of her pallu. The woman was not able to free her pallu from him. The woman got very angry. She scolded her son, beat him, but even then he did not listen, so the woman picked him up and threw him in the burning stove. The boy was burnt to ashes. The boy who had become a yogi got up without eating food. The family members told him a lot, but he did not agree to eat food. He said that I cannot eat food in a house where such a demon lives, who kills her own son.
Hearing this, the woman's husband went inside and brought a magical book and read a mantra. The boy who had been burnt to ashes became alive again.
Seeing this, the Yogi started thinking that if I get hold of this magical book, I too can bring that girl back to life. After this, he ate food and stayed there. When everyone slept after eating and drinking at night, the Yogi quietly took that book and left.
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He went to the place where the girl was burnt and saw that the other two boys were sitting there and talking. When the third boy said that he has got the magical book and he can bring the girl back to life by reciting the mantra, then both the boys took out the bones and ashes that they had kept with them. As soon as the third boy recited the mantra, the girl came back to life. Now all three started fighting among themselves for him.
Having said this, Betal said, “King, tell me whose wife should that girl be?”
King, if you do not answer me even after knowing the answer, then your head will be broken into pieces and if you speak, then I will again go and hang on the same tree from where you brought me.
The king replied that the girl should be married to the one who took the ashes and built a hut there.
Betal asked, “Why?”
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The king said, “According to Hindu religion, the boy who kept the bones is equal to his son, because after a person's death, only his son has the right over his bones.
The one who learned the knowledge and gave life to that girl is equal to her father, because it is the father who gives life.
But the one who took the ashes and built a hut there in her memory and started living there, only he is entitled to marry that girl.”
On hearing this answer of emperor Vikramaditya, Betal flew again and hung on the same tree. The king had to return again and when he took him again, then Betal told the third story to Emperor Vikramaditya.
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