Note 101 — THE KING AND HIS FOUR MINISTERS.
Edward Rehatsek translation
It is curious to find goldsmiths and jewellers invariably represented in Hindú stories as arrant rogues. In the fine old Indian drama entitled Mrichchakati, or the Toy-Cart, it is said: “There is no lotus that has not a stalk, no trader that is not a cheat, no goldsmith that is not a thief.”