Reading Notes: The Measure of Rice, Part A

Notes:
  • The Valuer was an honest man which the king did not like.
    • He was not pleased because he wanted a man that would make him more rich.
  • The king then found a peasant and asked him for a position as a new Valuer. 
    • Therefore, the peasant agreed.
    • The king sent the honest Valuer away from the palace.
  • The new Valuer had the people sell their goods for the price he set for the elephants, horses, gold and jewels.
  • The Valuer said the horses were worth a measure of a rice.
  • The horse-dealer bowed to the king and told him that he learned that the measure of a rice is the value of his five hundred horses.
    • He also asked the king if he know how much the value of the measure of the rice was.
  • The foolish fellow said that the measure of rice is worth the king's whole city.
  • King was ashamed and drove out the foolish fellow.
Bibliography: Jataka Tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt.
So They Went Before the King, Link Text.

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