Dhammapada 2.3.p20

2.3.p20

Tasmiṃ khaṇe umaṅgacorā dvinnaṃ gehānaṃ antare umaṅgaṃ bhindanti ekaumaṅgeneva dve gehāni pavisanatthāya. Rājā te disvā gehacchāyāya aṭṭhāsi. Tesaṃ umaṅgaṃ bhinditvā gehaṃ pavisitvā bhaṇḍakaṃ olokitakāle māṇavo pabujjhitvā taṃ mantaṃ sajjhāyanto ‘‘ghaṭṭesi ghaṭṭesi, kiṃ kāraṇā ghaṭṭesi? Ahampi taṃ jānāmi jānāmī’’ti āha. Te taṃ sutvā, ‘‘iminā kiramhā ñātā, idāni no nāsessatī’’ti nivatthavatthānipi chaḍḍetvā bhītā sammukhasammukhaṭṭhāneneva palāyiṃsu. Rājā te palāyante disvā itarassa ca mantasajjhāyanasaddaṃ sutvā gehaññeva vavatthapetvā nāgarānaṃ pariggaṇhitvā nivesanaṃ pāvisi. So vibhātāya pana rattiyā pātovekaṃ purisaṃ pakkositvā āha – ‘‘gaccha bhaṇe, asukavīthiyaṃ nāma yasmiṃ gehe umaṅgo bhinno, tattha takkasilato sippaṃ uggaṇhitvā āgatamāṇavo atthi, taṃ ānehī’’ti. So gantvā ‘‘rājā taṃ pakkosatī’’ti vatvā māṇavaṃ ānesi. Atha naṃ rājā āha – ‘‘tvaṃ, tāta, takkasilato sippaṃ uggaṇhitvā āgatamāṇavo’’ti? ‘‘Āma, devā’’ti. ‘‘Amhākampi taṃ sippaṃ dehī’’ti. ‘‘Sādhu, deva, samānāsane nisīditvā gaṇhāhī’’ti. Rājāpi tathā katvā mantaṃ gahetvā ‘‘ayaṃ te ācariyabhāgo’’ti sahassaṃ adāsi.

At that moment some tunnel-thieves began to dig a tunnel between two houses in order to enter two houses by the same tunnel. The king saw them and took his stand in the shadow of the house. Now in this house lived the young man who had just returned from Takkasilā with the charm. When the thieves had dug the tunnel, they entered the house and began to look over the goods in the house. Just then the young man woke up and began to repeat his charm, "You're rubbing! you’re rubbing! Why are you rubbing? I know too!” When the thieves heard this, they exclaimed, “This man knows what we are up to. Now he will kill us.” And forthwith, dropping even the clothes they had on, they fled in terror in the first direction that was handy. The king, seeing them fleeing and hearing the words of the young man as he repeated his charm, continued his tour of the city and then entered the royal residence.

When the night grew bright and the dawn came, the king summoned a certain man and said to him, “My man, go into such and such a street, and in a certain house, where a tunnel has been dug, you will find a young man who has just returned from Takkasilā after learning the various arts. Bring him to me.” The man went and said to the young man, “The king summons you,” and conducted him to the king. The king said to him, “Friend, are you the young man that has just returned from Takkasilā after learning the various arts?” “Yes, your majesty.” “Give us this charm also.” “Very well, your majesty. Sit down on the same seat with me and learn it.” The king sat down on the same seat with him, learned the charm, and then said to him, “Here is your fee as teacher,” and gave him a thousand pieces of money.