The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.24

c12.24

It is, however, narrated how the rajjugáhaka amacca is one day busy in the province, measuring a field. He fastens a rope to a stick, and whilst he gives one end of the rope to the owner of the field, he himself holds the other end (and wants to put the stick on the ground). In this way the stick got into the hole of a crab.¹ He reflects, "If I push the stick into the hole, the crab will perish, if I place the stick in front, the king will suffer loss, if I