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Mahashada from the Tibetan. One day, the king went into the park with

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his wives and enjoyed himself there.
Together with them, one of them took

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off a string of pearls worth a
hundred thousand pieces of money and hung it

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on a spray of an asoka tree. Whilst sporting with the king, she

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forgot about it and left it there. At midnight, after she had gone

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back to the palace with the king, she remembered that she had left her

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necklace in the forest. Meanwhile,
it had been carried off to the top

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of a tree by a female monkey. The king ordered his men to hasten

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to the forest and bring back the
necklace. They went there, but they

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did not find it. Now a
beggar had gone there in search of the

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remnants of the food of which other
men had made a meal. As he

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came forth from the forest after partaking
of such food, the king's men arrested

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him. As no one else was
to be seen there, they called on

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him to render up the necklace.
Although he proted tested that he had not

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taken it, had not even seen
it yet. He was beaten with fists

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and steaks, and then thrown into
prison. Tormented by hunger, he reflected

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that unless he contrived some cunning away
of escape, he would die there of

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starvation. So he said to the
jailer that he had, it was true,

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taken the pearl necklace, but that
he had given it to such and

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such a young merchant him. Also, the king's men summoned, and the

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two men were set fast, connected
by wooden fetters. The merchant used to

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receive from home dainty food. While
he was partaking of it, the beggar

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asked him for some, but the
merchant reviled him, saying, it is

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all very well for you to accuse
me of theft in order that I may

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nourish you with my food, I
will give you none of it. And

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having thus spoken, he ate it
all up. After this, when the

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merchant wished to change his place,
and said, let let us stand up

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and move, the beggar replied,
I will not listen to your words.

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I shall not get up. Then
said the merchant, henceforward will I behave

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so that you will be contented.
Thus, with friendly words and with an

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oath, he won over the beggar
and was able to do as he wished.

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The Next day, the merchant sent
home orders to provide in future food

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enough for two persons. Thereat the
beggar was highly pleased, and he reflected

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that in former times he used to
wander about the whole city without being able

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to find the means of filling his
belly. But now food and drink in

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plenty were at hand. While they
so enjoyed themselves, a further desire arose

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within them. They thought that in
order to have still more pleasure, they

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must call in a lute player.
So the beggar accused a lute player also

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of having taken the string of pearls. Then the king's men cast him also

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in to the prison. After some
time, the others besought the beggar to

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find some means whereby they might become
free, saying that in that case he

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should want for nothing. He promised
to do so, and bethought himself that

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no one could be of use except
mahau Shaddad. So he told the king's

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men that mahau Shadda's son had likewise
taken part in the affair, and they

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sent for him also. When mahau
Shadda heard that his son had been imprisoned,

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he felt that he must certainly go
to the place, for if he

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did not do so, his son
would fret himself. On arriving there,

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he asked the king what offense his
son had committed. The king replied that

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he had been imprisoned on the testimony
of the beggar with respect to the stolen

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pearl necklace. When Maha Shadda had
become fully acquainted with the contrivance of the

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captives, he said to the King, the theft has not been committed by

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any of these people. Let them
all go free on my word. So

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they were released. After this,
he went out to the park and came

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to the spot to the very tree
where they had been before. When he

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looked closely at the tree, he
perceived a female monkey sitting at the top

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of it. Then he felt sure
that this animal had taken the string of

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pearls and that it must be enticed
to come down by some artifice. So

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he asked the king to go there
with his wife and went there to hang

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a necklace round her neck. When
that was done, the monkey, as

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it sat on the tree top,
hung the pearl necklace round its neck.

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Then Mahau Shadda told the king's wife
to dance. When she did so the

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monkey on the tree top also began
to dance, but still the string of

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pearls did not fall from off its
neck. In order to bring that about,

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mahau Shadda asked the king to make
his wife, as she did,

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danced, hang down her head.
Then the monkey also began to dance about

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with its head hanging down, whereupon
the string of pearls fell down off its

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neck. Full of joy, the
king embraced Mahaushaddah and bestowed much property upon him