________________ Notes 17 replied, "No, I have come here from my village only to-day." Then the king thought; << Oh, wonderful is the talent of this boy." Then he asked Rohaka: " Boy ! what is your name, and what is your village ? " He replied "My name is Robaka, and I live in the neighbouring city." By this time there arrived Rohaka's father and both of them started for their village. The king also went his own way and thought in his mind: "I have got 499 ministers, but if however, I may get a prime minister possessed of exceptional talent and intelligence, then my kingdom would go on quite happily, because generally a king possessed of the strength of 'buddhi' (i.e. talent), though wanting in other kinds of strength, is never defeated and conquers other kings as if in sport." Thinking thus, he after a few days called before him the leading men of the village, and apparently ordered them to make a very big stone' lying outside their village into a covering (i.e. ceiling) fit for a royal 'mandap ', without lifting it from that place. But by ordering them to do so he really wanted to test the 'buddhi'(i.e. the talent) of Robaka. Then receiving this order from the king, all the people of the village, thinking it impossible to carry out
