There are two Liars called the Eastern Liar and the Western Liar,
it is said. The Eastern Liar was minded to go to seek the Western
Liar, it is said. [74] Should you say, "What was that for?" it was
for telling lies in competition (i.e., a lying match), it is said.
Tying up the packet of cooked rice from one and a half amunas [75] of
uncooked rice, and the flesh of twelve goats, and bringing it for the
[mid] day food, he went to the house of the Western Liar. At the time
when he was going there, the Liar was not at home; a daughter of his
was there. He gave her the packet of cooked rice to put away. She
took the packet of cooked rice with the point of the needle with
which she was sewing and sewing, and put it away.
The Eastern Liar [asked] the female child, "Where is thy father? In
the forest?"
Thereupon the child [said], "Our father [in order] to cover up the
thundering went to skin a mosquito, and come back."
Thereupon this very Liar, having become afraid, thinks, "At the time
when this very child told lies to this degree, when her father has
come to what extent will he tell lies?" Thinking it, and asking for
the packet of cooked rice again, he went off back again. Because it
was not yet day [76] [enough] for eating in the daytime, [76] having
hung the bundle of cooked rice on a large Banyan tree he went to sleep.
After that, at the time when the Western Liar, cutting sticks and
creepers for a house and placing them under his armpits, was coming,
the little female child who was at the house having gone in front
[of him], says, "A man came to seek you," she said.