[4] Diviyan, for deviyan, literally, deities. [↑]
[5] Many-bows-carrying Paṇḍitayā (Dhanu + ut + dara); it is a plural honorific form. [↑]
No. 133
A Poor Man and a Woman
At a certain city there were a poor woman and a man. Because the two persons had not [anything] to eat and to wear, the woman having pounded and pounded [paddy] obtained a livelihood.
When not much time had gone in this manner, being unable to pound and eat, her strength and ability [to work] went. Thereupon she one day having beaten the man with the broom,[1] and having said, “Strumpet’s son, bring thou from somewhere or other things for food,” seized him by the hair-knot, and cast him out of the door-way.
Then the man, through shame at what the woman had done, having gone along a road and sat down at a tree, when the time for eating rice came, wept.
Thereupon, the Dēvatāwā who stayed in that tree came and asked at the hand of the man, “Bola, what art thou crying for?”
Then this man says, “O Lord, my wife having become without strength or ability [to work], because we two were unable to obtain [anything] having beaten me with the broom, seized me by the hair-knot and put me outside. Having come [here] owing to it, because I cannot bear my hunger I wept.”