A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.s3.127

c8.s3.127

“In one of these villages, a woman having baked some ‘appalapûva’ (pancakes) was giving them to her child, who leaving the edges would only eat the centre. On his asking for another cake, she remarked: ‘This boy’s conduct is like Chandagutto’s in his attempt to take possession of the kingdom.’ On his inquiring: ‘Mother, why, what am I doing; and what has Chandagutto done?' 'Thou, my boy,' said she, 'throwing away the outside of the cake, eatest the middle only. Chandagutto also in his ambition to be a monarch, without subduing the frontiers, before he attacked the towns, invaded the heart of the country, and laid towns waste. On that account, both the inhabitants of the town and others, rising, closed in upon him, from the frontiers to the centre, and destroyed his army. That was his folly.'