No. 35
How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit.
In a village there is a rich foolish man. One son was born to the man. When they had been there in that way for a long time, as the rich man’s son was growing up, his father died. Then all this wealth came into the hands of his son. The son was a fool just like the father.
One day, having seen a wealthy man going in a carriage in which a horse was yoked, that rich man’s son thought he ought to go in that way in a carriage in which a horse was yoked. This rich man having gone home spoke to a servant, and said, “I will give thee thy expenses for going and coming. Go thou, and buy and bring me a horse,” he said. Having said it, he gave him a hundred masuran, and having given them sent him away.
This servant having gone on and on, went to a great big country. Having gone there, he made inquiry throughout the country—“Are there horses to sell in this country?”
Then a man of that country said, “The Gamarāla of this country has many horses,” he said. This servant who went to bring horses having given a masurama to the man whom he had met, said, “Please show me the house of the Gamarāla who has the horses,” he said. So the man, calling the servant, having gone to the Gamarāla’s house, sent him there.
The Gamarāla asked these men, “What have you come here for?”
The servant who went to get horses said, “I have come to take a horse for money,” he said.
“For whom?” he asked.