Note 4 — VIII. MAHAUSHADHA AND VIŚĀKHĀ.1

After this it happened one day that Mahaushadha was at play with the children, and they chose him as their king.4 He named some of the boys as his ministers, and they went on playing together. There came along the road an old Brahman with his young wife, on their way to another country. The Brahman stepped aside for a time, and during his absence a rogue, full of desire for the wife, came up to her and said, “Good woman, whither has your father gone?”