[2] Aniyatarâśi. See Childers on the word râsi. By this word may be represented the mass of the merits obtained by means of earlier deeds.—S. [↑]
XXVIII.
THE TRICKED ELEPHANT.[1]
Long ago there lived a herd of elephants in a certain district. One of their number fell in love with a female elephant. But she was warmly attached to another young male elephant, to whom she said, “Should not we take to flight when he goes forth to the chase?”
“Is there any means by which we may escape?” asked the young elephant.
“I know of a means,” she replied.
Then she said to the other elephant, “Let us go into the pool to bathe.”
He went into the pool. Then she said, “Let us see which of us two can remain under water the longest.”