The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE)/Book 4/Loss of Gains
BOOK IV
LOSS OF GAINS
BOOK IV
LOSS OF GAINS
Here, then, begins Book IV, called "Loss of Gains." The first verse runs:
Blind folly always has to pay
For giving property away
Because of blandishments and guile—
The monkey tricked the crocodile.
"How was that?" asked the princes. And Vishnusharman told the story of