When they had reached the park and there met together, they began to communicate to each other their [[185]]faults and secrets, saying, “Now will we lend each other support.”
“I ate the king’s peacock,” said one.
“I sinned with the king’s wife,” said another.
“I will do likewise,” said a third.
After all six of them had revealed their secrets to each other, they partook of food out of the same vessel.
But the parrot Māṭhara reported all it had heard to Mahaushadha, and he reported it to the king, who banished those ministers from the country. [[186]]
[1] Kah-gyur, vol. xi. fol. 53–87. [↑]
[2] Cf. Gaal, Märchen der Magyaren, Wien, 1882, p. 196. Der Vogel Goldschweif, especially p. 213: Hahn, Gr. und alb. Märchen, Leipzig, [[130]]1864, i. 227. Das goldene Huhn: Haltrich, “Deutsche Volksmärchen.” Berlin, 1856. “Der seltsame Vogel:” Miklosich, Ueber die Mundarten der Zigeuner, IV. No. vi., Die Diamanten legende Henne.—S. [↑]
[3] “Vaiśravaṇa, ‘son of Viśravas,’ epithet of Kuvera, the god of wealth.” [↑]