The son-in-law says, “Still a little further. Come along.” Having said this, and gone near the tree where he ate the rice, a buffalo was asleep in the place which he had cleared and had been sleeping at. The son-in-law, cutting a stick, came and struck the buffalo, and drove it away, saying, “What did you come to sleep in my chena for?”
Then the father-in-law asked, “Where, son-in-law, is the chena?”
The son-in-law says, “Andō! Father-in-law, this Caṇḍāla[1] buffalo was sleeping in one part that I had cut. The others men stole and went off with, maybe.”
After that, the father-in-law, having become angry, came home.
[1] The collective name of some of the lowest castes. [↑]