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Grandma's Stories
The holy man had been burning in the middle of four fires for a long time, and had an admiring audience. The prince walked up and asked him to split one of the logs.
In Varanasi there was a prince called Parshva.
Outside the city a famous holy man named Kamath was performing a penance. He had been at it a long time and a crowd had gathered to watch, because he was doing the hard kind, sitting between fires in the heat.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.