In a certain city there is a King, it is said. The King told them
to plant a garden. After that, he said, "Can anyone (kata) plant
a garden?"
One man said, "I can." Every day the King gave the things the man
wanted. The man, cutting channels and fixing the fence, began to plant
the garden; he set various kinds [of plants] in the garden. After
that, the King went to look at the garden; he saw that there were
various kinds of sugar-cane, sweet oranges, mandarin oranges, in the
garden. The King said to the gardener that he must look well after
the garden.
In that way, after not many days, the King said to the gardener,
"Take bows and arrows; should thieves come, shoot them." Thereupon,
by the authority of the King, he was thinking of shooting should they
come in from outside.
Not many days after that, the King said to the Adikarama (Minister),
"Let us go to the garden [secretly] to look into the examination
[of it made] by the gardener."
Then the Adikarama said, "The order made by Your Honour is [that he
is] to shoot thieves. It is not good for us to go."