At that time the [other] Prince said, "I saw that the Princess
was staying yesterday in the daytime in the midst of such and such
a forest."
Well then, this Prince, asking and asking the way, having gone to
the midst of the forest, at the time when he was walking in it a bear
having bitten the Prince he died.
Washerman. North-western Province.
In the Katha Sarit Sagara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 4, it is stated
that when the God Siva was relating a story to his wife Parvati,
one of his dependants, a Gana named Pushpadanta, entered unseen by
his magic power, and listened to it. Afterwards he related it to his
wife Jaya, who recited it in the presence of Parvati, whereupon the
Goddess lost her temper, reproached Siva for telling her an old story
known by others, and when she heard from him the true explanation,
cursed Pushpadanta and turned him into a mortal.