In plain words
Rāmakṛṣṇa opened the door, saw Timmarusu there before him, and was astonished. But he saw that if the great minister had come to his house so late at night, the Mahārāja must surely have got caught in some problem. At once he invited Timmarusu inside and asked the reason for his coming. Timmarusu explained all that had happened and showed him the letter the Pāduṣā had sent. Rāmakṛṣṇa read it and burst out laughing. “For so small a thing, did you have to take so much trouble and come to our house at midnight! Do not worry at all. Tomorrow I will tell you the fitting answer to this,” he said. Next morning Rāmakṛṣṇa met Rāyalu. The moment he saw him, Rāyalu felt as though life had come back into him. “Rāmakṛṣṇa! Have you thought about the answer we are to send the Pāduṣā?” he asked. “Yes, I have thought of it, my lord!” he said. Rāyalu was overjoyed and told him to say what should be written. Rāmakṛṣṇa told him to write in this way: “To the honoured Pāduṣā of Delhi, salutations. The invitation you sent has reached us. We told this to all the wells in our kingdom and asked them to come to the wedding. But they say they will not come if we call them. They say that big well itself, which is being married in your kingdom, must come in person and invite them. So I request you to arrange soon to send your big well to our kingdom.” When the Pāduṣā saw this reply, his head went spinning. At once he sent word that for certain unavoidable reasons the wedding had been cancelled, and so no one need come.
Another time the Pāduṣā heard of the Mahābhārata and of the valour and prowess of the Pāṇḍavas, and, enchanted, thought it would be good to have his own history too written as another Mahābhārata. At once he sent for a pandit and made his wish known. That pandit was a man of great intelligence. He laughed to himself at the Pāduṣā’s foolishness, but outwardly, humbly: “Mahārāja! I will surely write it as you wish. But in the Mahābhārata the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas are the chief figures. So it would be good if you yourself made known who the Pāṇḍavas are in your history, and who the Kauravas,” he said. The Pāduṣā: “I have many enemies.