Note 2 — The Invisible Silk Robe1

Then the seven men say regarding it, “Having obtained silk thread from good silk yarn (lit., thread), be good enough to give us it. Having constructed a place in your auspicious2 Sal [trees] garden, you must give us it. You must bring to that place and give us food and drink,” they said to the King. Having said it, they said at the very time, “The silk cloth that we weave is not visible to a base-born person. Should he be a well-born (saha-jātaka) person it is visible to him,” they said to the King.