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Tales of the Gods
He was not praying and not repenting. He was frightened, and he wanted his youngest child, and he shouted the boy’s name.
Ajamila was, by every measure his people used, a finished man.
He had been a brahmin of Kanyakubja and a good one. Dutiful, learned, properly married, careful about ritual. The Bhagavata sets that down in order to knock it down. One day he was sent out to gather things for the household's rites.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.