Vānara

(1)

In front of his stables a farmer is saying good-bye to his wife before going out to search for a strayed cow.

(2)

In the mountains the hungry farmer climbs up onto a tiṇuka tree to pick a fruit.

(3)

A monkey (Vānara) discovers the farmer, who has fallen into a rock chasm with a broken tree-branch.

(4)

The monkey drags the farmer out of the rock farmer, chasm.

(5)

The farmer is about to kill his rescuer with a boulder, in order to satisfy his hunger with the monkey's meat.

(6)

The monkey, badly injured, has pulled himself up and is reproaching the Farmer for his reprehensible deed.

(7)

The monkey escorts the farmer home through the mountain wilderness.

(8)

The farmer struck by leprosy for his evil deed and banished from his home, tells o his fate to a king who is hunting in the mountains.