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Answer the following question.
Did the king behave as an ordinary person, rather than as a ruler, at the hermit’s hut? What shows it? Did he also act as a good, kind person? When did he do so?
Solution
Like any other ordinary person, the king tended to the wounded man. He even washed the wound and bandaged it many times. When required. he brought and gave the man water to drink. The king went out of his way to be good and kind to the man. All this happened after the wounded man came running, wounded, to the hermit's hut.
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