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1 Punch| bring that here and boil it, root and branch, and put a little 2 Magic| out, "Do not cut at the root, cut higher up." When he 3 Magic| near the top, cut at the root." When the Jogi again prepared 4 Magic| prepared himself to cut at the root as requested, the bamboo 5 Magic| said, "Do not cut at the root, cut higher up;" and when 6 Magic| cut high up, cut at the root." The Jogi by this time 7 Magic| cut down the bamboo at the root, and taking it away made 8 Crane| fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree. Just