Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15 · page 21 2101Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another's head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the new-born babe, and placing them on a golden dish gave them to Rasalu.102Now, as he left the palace, carrying with him the new-born babe and the mango branch, he met a band of prisoners, and they called out to him,103"A royal hawk art thou, oh King! the rest But timid wild-fowl.104Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever blest!"105And Raja Rasalu hearkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty.106Then he went to the Murti Hills, and placed the new-born babe, Kokilan, in an underground palace, and planted the mango branch at the door, saying, "In twelve years the mango tree will blossom; then will I return and marry Kokilan."107And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, whom he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the King.108The Ass in the Lion's Skin109At the same time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant family; and when he grew up, he gained his living by tilling the ground.110At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.111Now at each place he came to, when he took the pack down from the ass's back, he used to clothe him in a lion's skin, and turn him loose in the rice and barley fields.112And when the watchmen in the fields saw the ass, they dared not go near him, taking him for a lion.1 2← previousDemon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14next →Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16↑ back to Indian Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/page/2/