A powerful king ruled over a large kingdom perched on the foothills of the Himalayas. He was very wealthy but an incurable miser. He gathered taxes from the people of the land for every little thing but did nothing to bring comfort and succor through the collected money to them. So the people in his kingdom disliked him. At the very edge of his kingdom on a thickly-forested slope lived an old woman called Bhoga. She had been named after the Goddess of Wealth, but she was poorer than a church mouse. Her thatched mud hut consisted of one room....