Passage 11

In English

Unlike these days, if one had to send a message in those days, either to or , it took months to reach the destination. Even before this news of the death of reached , was encountering many bad and inauspicious omens. On one evening, when he was walking out, he found one agriculturist returning home with a plough on his shoulder. looked at this unusual sight and asked the man why he was carrying the plough on his shoulders. This man replied that the previous day, the plough that he left in the field had been stolen, and so he was carrying the plough with him back home that day. was greatly surprised and agitated and began to doubt if was still alive, for he could not explain thefts in his kingdom.