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Speaker 1: The Brahman who lost his treasure from the Sanskrit. There

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is a city named Servasti, and in it there lived

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in old time a king of the name of Prazenashit.

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And one day a strange Brahman arrived in that city.

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A merchant, thinking he was virtuous because he lived on

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rice in the husk, provided him a lodging there in

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the house of a Brahman. There he was loaded by

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him every day with presents of unhusked rice and other gifts,

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and gradually by other great merchants also who came to

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hear his story. In this way, the miserly fellow gradually

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accumulated a thousand dinars, and going to the forest, he

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dug a hole and buried it in the ground. And

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he went every day and examined the spot. One day

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he saw that the hole in which he had hidden

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his gold had been reopened, and that all the gold

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had gone. When he saw that hole empty, his soul

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was smitten. And not only was there avoid in his heart,

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but the whole universe seemed to him to be avoid also.

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And then he came crying to the Brahmin in whose

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house he lived, and when questioned, he told him his

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whole story, and he made up his mind to go

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to a holy bathing place and staff himself to death.

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Then the merchant who supplied him with food, hearing of it,

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came there with others and said to him, Brahman, why

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do you long to die for the loss of your wealth? Wealth,

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like an unseasonable cloud, suddenly comes and goes. Though plied

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by him with these and similar arguments, he would not

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abandon his fixed determination to commit suicide, for wealth is

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dearer to the miser than life itself. But when the

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Brahmin was going to the holy place to commit suicide,

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the king Prasenajit himself, having heard of it, came to

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him and asked him, Brahman, do you know of any

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mark by which you can recognize the place where you

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buried your dinars. When the Bramin heard that, he said,

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there is a small tree in the wood there I

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buried that wealth at its foot. When the king heard that,

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he said, I will find that wealth and give it

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back to you, or I will give it to you

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from my own treasury. Do not commit suicide, Bramen. After

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saying this, and so diverting the Braman from his intention,

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of committing suicide. The king entrusted him to the care

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of the merchant and retired to his palace. He pretended

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to have a headache, and sending out the door keeper,

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he summoned all the physicians in the city by proclamation

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with beat of drum, and he took aside every single

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one of them and questioned him privately in the following words,

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what patience have you here? And how many? And what

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medicine have you prescribed for each? And they, thereupon, one

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by one answered all the King's question. Then one among

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the physicians, when his turn came to be questioned, said this,

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the merchant matri data, has been out of sorts, O King,

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and this is the second day that I have prescribed

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for him nargabala. When the king heard that, he sent

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for the merchant and said to him, tell me who

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fetched you the nargabala. The merchant said, my servant, your highness.

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When the king got this answer from the merchant, he

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quickly summoned the servant and said to him, give up

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that treasure belonging to a Brahmin, consisting of a store

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of dinars, which you found when you were digging at

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the foot of a tree for Nargabala. When the king

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said this to him, the servant was frightened and confessed immediately,

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and bringing those dinars, left them there. So the king,

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for his part, summoned the Brahman and gave him who

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had been fasting in the Meanwhile, his dinars lost and

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found again, like a second soul external to his body.