[4] Tissē dē wēlē, lit., the thirty of both times—that is, the thirty paeyas into which each day or each night is divided, the paeya being twenty-four minutes. [↑]
[5] In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. ii, p. 350, the bird was a pheasant, and the fire avoided a space eight feet in radius around the bird. [↑]
No. 82
The Princes who Learnt the Sciences
At a certain city there is a King, it is said. There are four Princes (sons) of the King, it is said. At the time when he told the four persons to learn the sciences that are [known] in that country, they were unable to learn the sciences.
After that, the King, bringing a sword, told them to [go elsewhere and] learn the sciences [or he would kill them].
So all the four Princes, tying up a bundle of cooked rice, went away, and having gone to yet a city and sat down at a halting-place (rūppayak), the eldest Prince said, “At the time when we are coming back we must assemble together at this very halting-place.”
After that, the eldest Prince arrived (baehunāya) at a city. At the time when he asked, “What is the science that is [known] in this city?” they said, “In this city there is sooth.”
“You must go and send me to the house where they say sooth,” he said. Then they went and sent him. The Prince learnt sooth.