“How could I not be absorbed in thought, since the whole troop of the
men who live in the village have taken the field in order to put my
relatives to death?”
“Why do you not behave with courage?”
“How can a captive behave with courage?”
“I will set you free from your bonds.”
So soon as the young monkey was set free, he set the village on fire.
When it began to burn, and clamour and uproar arose, the inhabitants
heard it and said—
“Honoured sirs, while we and the monkeys are at a distance, a great
calamity has occurred. As the village is burning, we will put out the
fire and then come back.”
So they hastened to put out the fire; but the monkeys came down from
the Tinduka tree and ran away.