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Wise Physician
Once on a time, there was a king named Mahasena, and he was attacked by another king far superior to him in power. Then the king’s ministers met together, and in order to prevent the ruin of his interests, Mahasena was persuaded by them to pay tribute to that enemy. Thereafter he had paid tribute that haughty king was exceedingly afflicted, thinking to him: “Why have I made a submission to my enemy?” And his sorrow on that account caused an abscess to form in his vitals, and he was so pulled down by the abscess that at last, he was at the point of death. Then a wise physician, considering that that case could not be cured by medicine, said falsely to that king: “O King, your wife is dead.” When he heard that, the king fell on the ground, and owing to the excessive violence of his grief the abscess burst of itself. So the king recovered from his disease, and long enjoyed in the society of that queen the pleasures he desired, and conquered his enemies in his turn..Read Lasya...Sivkishen Ji, Author