Verse 34

²⁷Hearing their friends speak so, and wanting to do what would please them, the two masters laughed and went to the palm wood with the cowherds around them. ²⁸Bala went in, shook the palms with his two arms, and by his strength brought the fruit down, like a rutting elephant. ²⁹Hearing the noise of the falling fruit, the demon in the shape of an ass came running, shaking the face of the earth and the trees standing on it. ³⁰The strong one came up quickly, turned about, struck Bala on the chest with his two hind feet, and then went round him braying. ³¹Coming back in a fury, king, the brayer stood with his back to Bala and threw his two hind feet at him in his rage.

³²Bala took him by the hooves and whirled him about with one hand and threw him into the top of the king of grasses; and the whirling had already taken his life. ³³Struck by him, the great palm with its wide crown shook and broke, and shook the one beside it, and that one another, and that one another still. ³⁴The palms all shook, struck again and again by the ass's body which Bala had thrown in play, as if a great wind had come at them.