The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

EvaM bodhisatto ca maddI ca sammodamAnA sakkadattiye assame vasiMsu.
Sadhavo : Listen, devotees, friends, young and old about the Great Being and MaddI
who lived happily together in the hermitage which had been built for them by Sakka, the
king of gods. JUjako pi : But the old JUjaka with two children, JAli and KaBhA,
journeyed sixty leagues. Deities looked after them. Suriye : When the sun set, the old
Brahmin tied the children to a tree and made them lie down on the bare ground. SAyaM :
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But he himself, in fear of fierce of wild animals climbed a tree and lay down in a fork of
the branches. Tasmim khaBe : Then a god would come to the children, taking a form of
Vessantara and a goddess in the form of MaddI. They untied the children, rubed,
washed their hands and feet and dressed them. They gave them food to eat and put them
a heavenly bed to sleep on, and at dawn they would make them lie down just as they
had been tied up and then they would disappear. Thus with the help of the gods, they
went on their way without suffering. Due to the prompting of deities, JUjaka made up
his mind to go to the kingdom of the Kalingas and within fifteen days came to the city
of Jetuttara.
TaM divasaM : That day, just before dawn, SaGjaya, the king of the Sivis, had a
dream, and his dream was thus: The King was sitting in the great hall of judgement; a
man brought him two lotuses and placed them in his hand. The king hung them to his
ears and their pollen fell down on to his lap. SApabhUGjitvA : When he awoke in the
morning, he asked his Brahmins what it meant. They replied that the relatives of the
king who had been away for a long time would return. TadA : That morning, after eating
delicious and fine foods, the king sat in the hall of judgement. TasminkABe : At that
time, the deities brought the old Brahmin there and put him in the royal courtyard so
that the king looked round and saw the children and said: KassetaM mukha mAbhAti
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