[4] Required as an offering to the demon in charge of the hidden treasure. Compare No. 196. [↑]
[5] At deka gāwin allāgattā. [↑]
[6] This reply is intended to show that the boys do not deserve sympathy. [↑]
No. 219
The Story of the Rākshasa
In a certain country three youths, brothers, go to school. When not much time is going by, the youths’ father called them in order to look at their lessons. The youngest one can say the lessons, the other two cannot say the lessons. After that their father drove them from the house.
Well then, the two, setting off, went away from the house. Thereupon this young younger brother began to go with them both. Both those elder brothers having said, “Don’t come,” beat that youth. Taking no notice of it[1] he went behind them, weeping and weeping.