Now the hunter, having scattered the grains of rice, spread out his net, and himself remained concealed. Just at that time a king of pigeons, Chitragriva (the Speckle-necked) by name, who was sailing in the sky with his retinue, noticed the grains of rice. Then the pigeon-king said to the pigeons that were attracted by the grains of rice - Whence can there be the possibility of rice-grains being found in this lonely (tenantless) forest? So let the matter be first carefully examined. I do not see any good will come out of this. Probably, by this our desire for the rice-grains, we too shall fare similarly (meet with a fate similar) to that of - The traveller, who through the lust of a bracelet, sank in deep mire and being caught by an old tiger, lost his life.