That woman on the following day having taken the bull [for sale], he gave about double the price he was paying for the bull, and having brought the cord also, tied it at the side of a jungle, [and informed the teacher].
While it was [there], in the evening the teacher having approached it in a leopard-disguise killed the bull.
The Brāhmaṇa and the Scholar (Variant b)
At a certain city there was a famous Brāhmaṇa. He taught a certain youth the whole of his science. After the scholar learnt the science the Brāhmaṇa became angry [with him]. While the time is going on thus, the Brāhmaṇa thought of killing the scholar. The scholar also got to know about it.
While they were at a certain place, these two persons having struck [each other] on the face, the Brāhmaṇa chased the scholar along the path. The scholar being unable to run [further], took the appearance of a bull, and ran off. The Brāhmaṇa, also, bringing a leopard’s appearance, chased him. The scholar being unable to run thus, becoming a parrot began to fly. The Brāhmaṇa, also, becoming a hawk began to go chasing it. At last the parrot, being unable to fly, entered the palace of a certain King by the window. The Brāhmaṇa, also, bringing a youth’s appearance became appointed for looking after the oxen of a house near by.
In this royal palace there was a Princess. The parrot having been during the day time in the disguise of a parrot, in the night time took also the appearance of a Prince. In the night time, in the appearance of a Prince he went near the Princess. Having been thus, in the day time, at the time when the parrot is bathing daily a cock comes. The parrot having gone away immediately got hid.
Having been thus, and being unable to escape, one day at night having uttered spells over and given [the Princess] three Mī[2] seeds, he said that at the time when the cock comes she is to break them in pieces.
On the following day, at the time when [the parrot] was bathing, the Brāhmaṇa came in the disguise of a cock. Thereupon she broke up the three Mī seeds. Immediately a jackal having come, seizing the neck of the cock went off [with it].