Hearing this, the monkeys being enraged said to themselves - Oh, the birds comfortably lodged in the interior of their nests not exposed to the blast, are reproaching us! Well, let the showers just cease. Thereafter, when the downpour of rain had stopped, the monkeys climbed up the tree, and smashed all the nests, so that the eggs of the birds fell down. Hence, I say - A learned man only should be advised etc. What did they do then? - asked the king. The crane replied - Then the birds said, in anger - Who made the royal swan king? Thereupon I too being irritated asked them - By whom was your peacock made king? Hearing this they all became ready to kill me, whereupon I also displayed my valour. For, on other occasions forbearance is an ornament to men as modesty is to women; but on the occasion of an insult a heroic action is an ornament as boldness (absence of modesty) is to a woman at the time of sexual enjoyment.