Story of golden bowl

Story name is- A Golden Bowl

Once upon a time,in the kingdom of seri,the bohisattva,who bought and sold post and pans,was called serivan in the company of another seller of pots and pans,a greedy fellow,he crossed the river televastra and entred the city of andhapura. Dividing the streets between the two of them, they set about selling their posts and pans each in the streets of his own district.

Now,in the city, there lived a poor family which had once been rich. There were only two people in the family now,a young girl and her grandmother, who worked for their living.lying amoung old pots and pans in their house was a golden bowl, which, having been long out of use,looked so dirty that the two women did not know that it was made of gold. The greedy seller went past their door crying ,Exchange your old pots for new!, when, the young girl heard his cry ,she said to her grandmother , do let,s buy a new plate grandmoher! There,s man who,s selling pots.,,

We are very poor, child. What have we to offer in exchange?,, the old woman said 

Why there is dirty bowl which we never use. Let us exchange the bowl for a plate, the girl said. Both the old woman and the girl were keen to get rid of the bowl.

So the old woman called the seller in and giving him the bowl, said take this bowl young man , and give my grand-doughter a plate in exchange.,,
The seller took the bowl in his hands and suspecting it was gold, scratched a line on the bottom with a needle. He knew his suspecting it was gold, scratched a line on the bottom with a needle. He knew his suspicion was right, the bowl, was pure gold.thinking that he would get the bowl for nothing, he pretended that it was useless and scornfully threw it on the ground, rose from his seat and went out of the house.the young girl was very sad at the seller,s rudeness and the old woman could not understabd why he had become so annoyed or why he had behave in such an insulting manner.

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