Note 3 — XII. SUŚROṆĪ.1
Anton Schiefner translation
He went off with her things, but she crawled naked into the thick grass. There came by an old jackal carrying a piece of flesh.3 Just at that spot a fish, driven on to the shore from the stream of the river Karada, was lying on the dry land. The jackal dropped the piece of flesh and made a dash at the fish. But the fish sprang back again into the stream, and the flesh was carried off by a vulture, so that the jackal, deprived of both, was left standing there mournfully, with drooping ears. Seeing that, Suśroṇī uttered the following śloka—