[Continued from the previous part] The water demon saw that Mahissasa didn’t went into the pond, so it impersonated a worker. It said to Mahissasa, “Tired people, why don’t you go down into this pond, take a bath, drink water, and eat some lotus rootstock ?” Mahissasa knew that it actually was a water demon. [...]
[Continued from the previous part] In those days, there was a king of Varanasi named Phrommadatta. His queen had a son named Mahissasa. One of his concubine also gave a birth to a son named Chanta. When the queen passed away, he appointed his most favourite concubine as a new queen. The new queen also [...]
In the age of the Gautama Buddha, there was a middle-class man whose wife had just passed away. He decided to be ordained. After became a monk, he called his followers to cook foods for him. He also had a lot of yellow robes and clothes. Other monks had passed the new monk’s place and [...]
In those days, there was a royal appraiser. He worked for the king of Varanasi. He expert on estimating value of elephants and horses. However, the king was so stingy. He thought “If this appraiser still does his work, the royal asset will be exhausted. I’ll look for another man to do this job instead.” [...]