The King said, "I will give a thousand masuran, and expenses [94]
for eating."
Thereupon the man says, "It is too little for me and my wife, and my
boy and girl, for us four persons."
After that the King said, "I will give two thousand masuran, and
expenses for eating for you four persons."
Thereupon the man said, "Having returned to my village I will go and
call my wife and children to come."
As he was going, a jewelled ring of a Maharaja had fallen [on the
path]. This man, taking the jewelled ring in his hand, thought,
"It is bad for me to destroy this jewelled ring; this I must give to
the King."
Thinking thus he went home, and summoning his wife and children came
to the city. After he presented [95] that jewelled ring to the King,
the King asked, "Whence [came] this jewelled ring to thee?"
This man said, "This jewelled ring as I was going to the village had
fallen on the path. It is that [ring] indeed which I placed [before
you] as this present."
After that the King [said], "A ring of a greater King than I! Because
it is so it is bad to destroy this ring. What dost thou say about
[thy reward for] it?"
"I say nothing. The thing that is given to me I will take."
Thereupon the King said, "Are you quite satisfied [for me] to give a
district from the kingdom, and goods [amounting] to a tusk elephant's
load?" This man said "Ha."
After he said it the King gave them. Thereupon this man took charge
of the guarding of the elephants.
One day when he was guarding the elephants the Rakshasa came. This
man asked, "What came you for?"