XVI.

GOOD WILL GROW OUT OF GOOD.Best Shard Mosier, I, 274/

In a certain town there reigned a king namedPatnîpriya, to whose court a poor old Brahmin,named Pâpabhîru, came every morning, with ayellow lime in his hand, and presenting it to theking, pronounced a benediction in Tamil:-

Nanmai vidaittal, nanmai vilaiyum:Timai vidaittal, timai vijaiyum:

Nanmaiyum timaiyum pinvara káṇalám." If good is sown, then good will grow:If bad is sown, then bad will grow:

Thus good or bad the end will show."

The king respected as much the noble benedictionof the Brahman as he did his grey hairs.

In this way the presentation of the fruit continueddaily, though the Brahmin had nothing to requestfrom the king, but simply wished to pay hisrespects. On observing that he had no ulteriormotives, but was merely actuated by rájasevana, or

i.e., lover of his wife.

+ i.e., a shudder at sin.