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Speaker 1: Mahashada from the Tibetan. One day, the king went into

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the park with his wives and enjoyed himself there. Together

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with them, one of them took off a string of

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pearls worth a hundred thousand pieces of money and hung

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it on a spray of an asoka tree. Whilst sporting

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with the king, she forgot about it and left it there.

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At midnight, after she had gone back to the palace

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with the king, she remembered that she had left her

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

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to the top of a tree by a female monkey.

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The king ordered his men to hasten to the forest

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

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did not find it. Now a beggar had gone there

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in search of the remnants of the food of which

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other men had made a meal. As he came forth

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from the forest after partaking of such food, the king's

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men arrested him. As no one else was to be

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seen there, they called on him to render up the necklace.

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Although he proted tested that he had not taken it,

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had not even seen it yet. He was beaten with

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fists and steaks, and then thrown into prison. Tormented by hunger,

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he reflected that unless he contrived some cunning away of escape,

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he would die there of starvation. So he said to

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the jailer that he had, it was true, taken the

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pearl necklace, but that he had given it to such

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

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and the two men were set fast, connected by wooden fetters.

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The merchant used to receive from home dainty food. While

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he was partaking of it, the beggar asked him for some,

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but the merchant reviled him, saying, it is all very

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well for you to accuse me of theft in order

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that I may nourish you with my food, I will

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give you none of it. And having thus spoken, he

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ate it all up. After this, when the merchant wished

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to change his place, and said, let let us stand

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up and move, the beggar replied, I will not listen

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to your words. I shall not get up. Then said

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the merchant, henceforward will I behave so that you will

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be contented. Thus, with friendly words and with an oath,

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he won over the beggar and was able to do

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as he wished. The Next day, the merchant sent home

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orders to provide in future food enough for two persons.

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Thereat the beggar was highly pleased, and he reflected that

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in former times he used to wander about the whole

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city without being able to find the means of filling

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his belly. But now food and drink in plenty were

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

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arose within them. They thought that in order to have

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still more pleasure, they must call in a lute player.

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So the beggar accused a lute player also of having

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

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him also in to the prison. After some time, the

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others besought the beggar to find some means whereby they

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might become free, saying that in that case he should

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

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himself that no one could be of use except mahau Shaddad.

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So he told the king's men that mahau Shadda's son

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had likewise taken part in the affair, and they sent

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for him also. When mahau Shadda heard that his son

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had been imprisoned, he felt that he must certainly go

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to the place, for if he did not do so,

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his son would fret himself. On arriving there, he asked

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the king what offense his son had committed. The king

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replied that he had been imprisoned on the testimony of

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the beggar with respect to the stolen pearl necklace. When

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Maha Shadda had become fully acquainted with the contrivance of

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the captives, he said to the King, the theft has

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not been committed by any of these people. Let them

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all go free on my word. So they were released.

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After this, he went out to the park and came

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to the spot to the very tree where they had

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been before. When he looked closely at the tree, he

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perceived a female monkey sitting at the top of it.

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Then he felt sure that this animal had taken the

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string of pearls and that it must be enticed to

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come down by some artifice. So he asked the king

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to go there with his wife and went there to

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hang a necklace round her neck. When that was done,

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the monkey, as it sat on the tree top, hung

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the pearl necklace round its neck. Then Mahau Shadda told

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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

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still the string of pearls did not fall from off

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its neck. In order to bring that about, mahau Shadda

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asked the king to make his wife, as she did, danced,

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hang down her head. Then the monkey also began to

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dance about with its head hanging down, whereupon the string

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of pearls fell down off its neck. Full of joy,

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the king embraced Mahaushaddah and bestowed much property upon him