In English
Once there was a businessman in who lost his wife at the age of 60. As there was no one to take care of his family, he felt very sad. He had an aged clerk who worked in his business establishment. The clerk had a 16-year-old daughter who had lost her mother. The businessman asked him to give his daughter in marriage to him. The clerk was a greedy man and wanted money. So, he performed the marriage of his 16-year-old daughter with the 60-year-old businessman. The girl was very sad and cried day and night. As she was motherless, she was married to an old man. The husband is after money, the wife will always follow . The girl realised that all this had happened because she had no mother. The businessman usually came late from the office at night. One day, the girl decided to end her life due to loneliness and grief. As the businessman did not return home till 10 o’clock at night on that day, she thought that was the right time to commit suicide and end her life instead of spending all her life in misery. So, she jumped into the river and ended her life. On the 10th day of the death of his wife, the businessman served food and sweets to the inmates of an in . There was a young renunciant in this who used to meditate every day. Normally, he could meditate well but that evening he felt disturbed when he sat for meditation because he saw a young girl crying while he meditated. The renunciant sat in meditation again at night but saw the same girl again. He could not sleep the whole night and tried to know what mistake he had committed that he was unable to meditate. Somehow he spent that night.