No. 185a
The Crab and the Frog
At a certain time for a certain Frog food became deficient. Having gone near a certain Crab he brought paddy. He having brought the paddy, after not much time had gone the Crab asked the Frog for the [repayment of the] paddy debt. Then the Frog said, “I will afterwards give [you] the debt.”
For the Frog’s getting two from the naeliya[1] that holds four patas, the Crab falsely asked for seven.
So the Frog in this fashion swears:—“By Karagama Devi, by the one daughter of mine, out of the naeliya of four patas [it was], two, two, two, two.”[2]
Then the Turtle, being there, says from a side, “If [you] got them, give; if [you] got them, give.”[3]
Notwithstanding this, the Frog did not give them.