Then the Gamarāla having seized the tail jammed in the salt chillies. Afterwards the Sapu-flowers’ Minister pulling out his tail bounded away. Having bounded off and gone, he sat down on a flat rock. Afterwards the Jackal Paṇḍitayā asked, “What are you on that flat rock for?”
“I am looking if this country is fruitful or unfruitful,”[1] he said.
Again, the Gamarāla, saving his life, went to the village. The Jackal Paṇḍitayā went to the Gamarāla. “What is it, Gamarāla? Couldn’t you kill him?”
“While he was outside how could I, sitting in the cave, kill him?”
“I will tell you a trick for that one,” the Jackal Paṇḍitayā said. Afterwards he said, “You must make a trap for that one,” he said.
“Where shall I make the trap?” [the Gamarāla] asked.
“At the fence of the goat-fold,” he said.
Afterwards he made the trap. The Sapu-flowers’ Minister was noosed in the trap. On the following day the Gamarāla came to look. Having come before the Gamarāla, also the Jackal Paṇḍitayā came near the trap. “Gamarāla, to-day indeed he has been hanged,” he said.
Etana metana tō gasannē
Kambul baeṭa dīpannē