While a man was chopping the earthen ridges in the field at which is the Wild Mango tree, having seen the Mango Bird[1] the man went up the tree, and having caught the Mango Bird and descended from the tree to the ground, struck the Mango Bird on the root of the tree. Having struck it he asked the Mango Bird, “Mango Bird, was that day good [or] is to-day good?”[2]
Then the bird says,
“Both that day was good and to-day is good
Through eating the mangoes of a Mango tree,
And looking if hardness in Mango root there be.”
After that, the man having placed the Mango Bird in a gap in the earthen ridge in the rice field, in which there was water, asks the bird, “Mango Bird, was that day good, [or] is to-day good?”
Then the bird says,
“Both that day was good and to-day is good
Through eating the mangoes of a Mango tree,
Looking if hardness in Mango root there be,