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| − | '''An Allegory and its Translation'''
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| − | ''ek lakkadhara tha. woh jab sota tha tab uske dadhi ke bal badhte aur sare sheher mein
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| − | phailkar andhera kar dete. Tab us sheher mein raat hoti. Uthkar jab uski preyasi apne bal
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| − | sawarti tab us sheher mein subah ho jati.
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| − | raat mein bacche us sheher ke sapne likhte. lekin ek pankti likhte hi dout ki sari syahi
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| − | khatm ho jati kyon ki raat sari syahi kha kar aur bhi kali ho jati. tab lakkadhare ne do
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| − | lakdi ki dibiya banayi. ek mein usne andhera bhar diya. dusri band rakh di, to us mein
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| − | andhera ghus nahi paya. woh ujali hi reh gayi.
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| − | ab andheri dibiya mein kalam dubokar, bacche aur sheher ke sapne dono badhne lage. jab yeh
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| − | baat raja ko pata cha gayi tab usne andheri dibiya par apna kabja kar liya. praja ke sapne
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| − | raja ke liye bahut hanikarak sabit ho sakte the.
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| − | lakkadhare ne tab ujali dibiya khol di. lekin ujale se likhe gaye sapne sab dekh sakte the.
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| − | ab sara sheher ek hi sapna dekhne laga. raja ke bhi sapne ab sab dekh sakte the. tab kya koi
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| − | ashcharya hai ki raja ka rajya khatm kyon hua? logon to bas nadiya kinare balon ki ek gutthi
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| − | jo pani mein tair kar ayi thi, padi hui najar ayi.''''
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| − | '''The Translation'''
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| − | There was once a wood cutter, whose beard grew when he slept and covered the entire town
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| − | with darkness. that's how there would be night in the town. when his wife woke up and tied
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| − | her hair with the sweep of a hand, there would be light in the village.
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| − | In the darkness, children would write the dreams of this town. but they were only one lined
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| − | dreams, as the darkness would eat up all the ink as soon as one line was written, to become
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| − | then the woodcutter made two wooden boxes. In one box he filled up all the darkness. The
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| − | other didnt have a door so it couldnt be opened; the darkness could not enter this box and
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| − | hence it remained lit.
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| − | dipping their pens in the dark box, the children and the dreams of the town began to grow.
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| − | when the king heard of this box, he wanted to control a box, which made the dreams of his
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| − | kingdom.
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| − | So the woodcutter opened the lit box for the children. but now everyone could see the dreams
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| − | written with light. the entire town dreamed the same dream. the king's dream could also be
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| − | seen by his subjects. for the people who kept asking, is it any surprise then, that the king
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| − | lost all his power?
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| − | All they could see was some entangled bunch of hair, which had come floating in the river
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