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Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was king of Benaras the Bodhisatva was the chief justice. He judged cases rightly and people all over the kingdom praised his wisdom. At that time there lived in the city of Benaras two traders. One of them, when he went on a journey gave the other five hundred ploughshares to keep till his return. But no sooner had the owner of the ploughshares departed on his travels than the other sold away the ploughshares, kept the money for himself and scattered mouse dug in the store house where the ploughshares had been kept. When the trader who had gone on a journey returned and asked for the ploughshares, the one who had sold them told him that they had been eaten by mice and showed the mouse dug in the store house as proof thereof. Now, the owner of the ploughshares knew that he was cheated but there was no use of protesting. So he pretended to believe the story, remarking, "Alas !" very unfortunate and went to his house.

80 Next day, however, he came back and invited his friend's young so on for a walk. The boy accepted the invitation and as the man and the boy were walking together, the man fell upon the boy, seized him and locked him up in a room in his house. The father of the boy, not finding his son, asked the trader who had taken the boy for a walk where his son was. "Alas, friend !" said the trader who had confined the boy in his house, while your son and I were walking on the road, a kite made a swoop and carried away the boy." The father of the boy did not believe the story, and asked the trader since when kites were known to carry away young men. "If things that ought not to happen do happen, said the trader, "what can I do, my friend?" The father of the boy waxed wroth on hearing there words of the trader, went to the court of law and addressed his complaint to the chief justice. The chief justice sent for the accused and asked him for an explanation and finding that man persisted in saying that a kite had carried away the boy, he wanted to know of him since when kites were known to carry away young men, my lord; said the accused, since the days mice have started eating iron ploughshares. Now the Bodhisatva thought there was something deeper in the matter and asked for an explanation from the accused. The accused narrated to him the story of the ploughshares, upon which, the Bodhisatva understood on whom the guilt lay, and asked the father of the boy to return the price of the ploughshares to their owner. This was done, and the boy was released and sent back to his father.

81 The Bodhisatva thus gave fair judgment in all cases and people praised his wisdom.