The ten traders now took back all their property, and armed themselves with the swords and cudgels of their enemies; and when they reached their village, they often amused their friends and relatives by relating their adventure.[2]
[1] Traders have also certain secret symbols for marking their prices on their cloths.
[2] This story, apart from its folklore value, is specially interesting as showing that the customs mentioned in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIV., pp. 155ff., as being prevalent at Delhi, regarding secret trade language are universal in India.
XVI.
Good Will Grow Out of Good.
In a certain town there reigned a king named Patnîpriya,[1] to whose court, a poor old Brâhmiṇ, named Pâpabhîru,[2] came every morning, with a yellow lime in his hand, and presenting it to the king, pronounced a benediction in Tamil:—
Nanmai vidaittâl, nanmai vil̤aiyum:
Tîmai vidaittâl, tîmai vijaiyum: