Storia do Mogor 249.2

249.2

In order to gain more time for his wiles, and knowing that the ascetic went every morning at cock-crow to bathe in the Ganges, he crowed two or three times at midnight in imitation of a cock, quite close to the ascetic's house. Not to break his good habits, the ascetic rose promptly and went away to the river. But finding her (the river) still asleep, he concluded from this [104] that the cock had not crowed, but he had imagined it in a dream. Returning to his home, he found the king of the gods with his wife, and at this he was so angered that he cursed the king, saying, ' May all the members of your body be transformed into the likeness of that wherewith you committed adultery and accomplished your desires.'