The king asked how it was. Dirghamukha thus related - There is a large Salmali tree on the bank of the Narmada, in the vicinity of a hill. There, in the interiors of nests, built by themselves lived certain birds in happiness even in the monsoons. Once in the rainy season, the sky being overcast with masses of clouds looking like so many dark veils, there fell a heavy shower of rain in large streams. Then the birds seeing some monkeys at the foot of the tree, suffering from cold and shivering, said, through mercy - Ho monkeys, hear! We have built nests with straws brought by means of nothing else but our bills. Why do you (then), who are endowed with hands and feet, experience suffering?