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

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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