In a certain country there is a King, it is said. For the King there
is not a Queen. Near the royal palace there is a widow woman; the
King is associating with that widow woman. The King gives the woman
at the rate of five hundred masuran a day.
While they were living in that way, another man thought of conversing
much with that woman. Having thought it, one day the man having come
near the woman, says, "Ane! Every day in a dream I am conversing much
with you regarding the doubt in my mind."
Then the woman said, "If so, seeking five hundred masuran come and
converse much with me."
After that, the man, seeking five hundred masuran, came on the
following day. Having come there he gave the five hundred masuran
into the hand of the woman. After that, the woman, taking the masuran
and having placed them in the house, says to the man, "Ha; now then,
should we converse much in the dream it is so much, should we converse
in reality it is so much (that is, they are equal). Now then, our
talk is finished; go you away." Having said it she neither gave the
masuran nor conversed much with the man; she drove the man away.
After she drove him away the man instituted a law-suit before the
King who associates with the woman. After he instituted it, when
hearing the action the King, because he is associating with the woman,
declared judgment for the woman to win, and the man's [claim] came to
be rejected. While the Parrot which had been reared in the palace was
[there], this man's [claim] comes to be rejected.
On account of it, the Parrot having gone there said to the King,
"How was the way the woman won that law-suit? Is it not as though one
saw a reflection below the water, what one says in a dream?" Having
said [this], the Parrot explained the law-suit, and the five hundred
masuran became the property of the man.
Owing to it, the woman, through enmity against the Parrot, catching
the Parrot and having given the Parrot into the hand of her girl
(daughter), said, "Pluck this Parrot and cook it, and place it [for
me to eat] when I come." Having said [this] the woman again went to
the palace.
The girl, having plucked the Parrot and finished it and placed the
Parrot there, went into the house for the bill-hook in order to cut
up the Parrot. At the place where the Parrot was put there was a
covered drain. The Parrot having gone rolling and rolling over fell
into that drain. When that girl, taking the bill-hook to cut up the
Parrot, came there, the Parrot was not [there]. After that, the girl
through fear of that woman having killed a chicken which was there,
cooked it, and placed [it ready].
That woman having come and said, "Where is it? Quickly give me the
Parrot's flesh," asked for it. Then that girl brought the fowl's
flesh and gave it.
Well then, that woman while eating the fowl's flesh, says, "Is it the
Parrot's flesh! This I am eating is indeed the mouth that cleared up
the law-suit! This I am eating is indeed the Parrot which said that
he ought to give the masuran to that man!" Saying and saying it, she
ate all the flesh of the chicken. When she was saying these things
that Parrot stayed at the end of the drain; keeping them in his mind
he remained silent.
When cooking at the house, having washed the cooking pots they throw
down the water at the end of the drain in which is the Parrot. Having
squeezed coconut [in water, to make coconut milk], they also throw the
coconut refuse there. When the Parrot, continuing to eat these things,
was there a considerable time the Parrot's feathers came [again].
The woman thoroughly performed meritorious acts. The woman, having
told a carpenter, causing a statue of Buddha to be made and placing the
statue in the house, makes flower offerings evening and morning to it.
After that, the Parrot having gone near a Barbet, said, "Ane! Friend,
you must render an assistance to me."