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wheat, Kodrava ( inferior corn eaten by poor people ) kidney beans and other kinds of corn in his field, and one day, he went to the house of his daughter at Mālavā, where he was fed with IZAUTA Guda-maņda ka, large and very thin cakes made of wheaten flour and molasses, by his daughter. The farmer inquired “How is molasses prepared." His daughter and other relatives replied, “Dig a well and then, grow wheat and sugar-canes.” Acting on the advice received from his daughter and others, the farmer, bought seeds for wheat-growing, went immediately to his native place and commenced the plucking out of corn-plants grown in his field. When his relatives and acquaintances asked him the reason for his awkward behaviour, he said "I want to produce wheat and sugar-cane in this field. We shall eat sweet cakes prepared witb m lasses. We have become disgusted with the eating of such inferior corn." His relatives told him "Such corn will not grow in this land.” Although remonstrated with a good deal by his relatives, tbe farmer did not care for their advice, but proceeded on with the work of up-rooting the corn-plants from his field. He then commenced digging out a well. He dug out very low in the ground, but he could not get a drop of water from it. The corn-seeds that he brought from his daughter's village were decomposed. The pulses and other inforior corn grown in his field, were up-rooted and thrown away. The farmer lost every thing by endeavouring to obtain an inappropriate article.
In the same manner, my dear husband, lest you may not be deprived of the pleasure of sensual enjoyments of this world, and lest you may not become unhappy, like the farmer Baka, by discarding your wives and other objects of enjoyment already in your pessession..
Jambû Kumāra replied “I am not like the greedy crow, who was very fond of flesh, that I may become unhappy. Now, hear the crow's story.
