The King, being unable to get rid of it, went away into the midst of a forest. Having gone [there], while he was walking and walking in the forest, Śakra, having seen that this King is walking about hungry, creates five hundred Grey Monkeys (Semnopithecus) in the forest, plucking and plucking Mora[1] [fruit]. The party are eating [the fruits].
A female Monkey having said, “I don’t want those things,” quarrelled with the male Monkey. “If so, what shall I give thee?” the male Monkey asked.
Having seen that there is a large Mora fruit at the end of the branch, she says, “Pluck that and give me it (dinan).”
“One cannot go there to pluck that; eat thou these,” the male Monkey said. The female Monkey said, “I will not.”
Thereupon the male Monkey says, “If five hundred are able to eat these, why canst thou not eat them?” Having said it, the male Monkey, taking a stick, beats her well. Then the female Monkey, weeping and weeping, was saying, “I will eat these.”
The King having been looking on at this quarrel, thinks, “These irrational animals are not afraid of their wives.” Thinking, “Why am I in this fear?” he came to the King’s palace [after] breaking a stick.
At the very time when he was coming, the Queen said, “Tell me what it was you laughed at that day.”
Thereupon, at the time when the King, holding the Queen’s hair-knot, was beating her, saying and saying, “Will you ask me again?” the Queen began to cry, saying and saying, “Anē! Lord, I will not ask again.” Thereupon the King remained [there] quietly.
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