विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

253 your majesty, did you ever see or hear of any mortal man being able to do what this vile impostor has this day done— enter a small pot and come out through its neck? Does your majesty not see who is the real son of the brahmin? I beg your majesty will immediately order the tree on the brahmin’s premises to be cut down.” This was done, and the Zotinge disappeared for ever. The king was much pleased with the parrot’s judgment, and praised him loudly for his wisdom and ingenuity. The venerable brahmin and his wife received their son with tears of joy, and the wife and son of Moodgul hung down their heads with shame for having so grossly abused him. His father then approached, and tenderly embraced him, saying, “My dear son, we are fully aware of the indignity and cruel treatment which we in our ignorance have inflicted on you, but I trust you will forgive us, and return home to your paternal roof.” Moodgul replied, in much anger, “I will not go home with you. I renounce the whole of you! —henceforth you shall be to me as my bitterest enemies!” The brahmin entreated him with much earnestness and contrition, but Moodgul was deplorably obstinate, and would not hearken to the voice of his aged sire. The parrot, finding the youth bent upon not being reconciled to his friends and connections, interceded on their behalf, saying that they had been altogether ignorant of the imposition that was practised upon them by the Zotinge, and desiring him to bear them no ill-will for what they had been unin- tentionally guilty of, and therefore, in fact, not guilty of at all. “Nothing,” continued the parrot, “is more noble, more generous, or more pleasurable than to forgive even real injuries done to us: how much more necessary, then, does it become for every man of virtue and magnanimity to forgive injuries which, though productive of the same effect to the person on whom they have been inflicted, are still divested of much of their evil qualities from the circumstance of their being unintentional? It is your duty, therefore, to forget and forgive every offence or injury you