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॥ हिताषट्शः ॥ ४६३ যে নিন্দিত ব্যক্তি ভাইকে নষ্ট করিয়া কি পুরুষাৰ্থহে মছা রাজ শুনুন সে সচিব প্রথম দশ নতে ভানিয়াছিল কিন্তু ঐ রাজা মহাশয় সেই হেতুক মামি বঞ্চনা করিয়াছি। প্রজ্ঞেরা তাহা কহিয়াছেন মাত্মতুল্যতে যে লোক খলকে সত্যবাদী করিয়1 জানে সে জন সেই প্রকার বধি ভ হয় যেমন ছাগ লের নিমিত্তে তিন জন পূর্বকত্বক এক ব্রাহ্মণবঞ্চিত হইল। سسه Although Cloud-colour the crow, was so long in the rnemy's castle, what if he doth, or doth not know whether the royal goose, Hiranya-garbha, be possessed of those qualities which are necessary towards our treating with him? After this, continued the spy, the peasock king having called Cioud-colour brfore him, asked him what 'sort of a character that same royal goose. Hiranyagarbha, was, and what sort of moister he had. To this the crow replied,—Please your highness, Hiranya-garbha is as noble as king Yudhi-shtira, and a person of great sincerity ; and as to his minister, his likeness is no where to be discovered. If he be as thou hast described him, observed the king, how was it that he was deceived by thee? The crow replied, What great ingenuity is there in deceiving him whose confidence one hath gained? Is the term manhood his who mounteth upon the bed, and destroyeth those that are asleep? 鹼 Attend,. please your highness, I was discovered by the minister from the beginning; but, the king his master, being himself one in whom the greatest confidence may be placed, was easily imposed upon by me; according to the following saying: He who, judging by what passeth in his own breast, beliveth a knave to be a person of teracity, is deceived; us the Brahman was concerning his goat,