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As he was leaving the palace, the Dragon King gave him three gifts; a bale of rice which proved to be, like Fortunatus's purse, inexhaustible, a roll of silk which gave him a never-ending supply of clothing, and a bell which had come first from India and had been hidden at the bottom of the lake for a long time.
Tōda dedicated the bell to a temple on the lake-side and kept the other two treasures himself. In his further adventures he found the miraculous things of the very greatest service, and from his possession of the unfailing rice-bale he was always called by the people, Tawara Tōda, "Lord Tōda of the Rice-bale."[14]
