When the kings did not find any encouraging and auspicious sign, they made some excuse to save their faces and sat down in humiliation. Some of them went near the bow to see it, touched and felt it but did not attempt to lift it, leaving it alone just like a monkey who feels the outer shell of a coconut and leaves it aside (because it knows that it is impossible for it to break the shell and reach for the delicious kernel inside it). Then they came back and sat down on their seats with a bowed head. (It ought to be noted here that these kings have been ridiculed by comparing them to a ‘monkey’! This is because they were greedy and wanted to see the bow at close quarters to judge whether they can manage to lift it but finding it beyond their means they returned with a monkey-like red face.)