Story of the man who tried to improve his wife’s nose.
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Somadeva Bhatta, active 11th century and Tawney, C. H. (Charles Henry)
There lived in some place or other a foolish man of bewildered intellect. He, seeing that his wife was flat-nosed, and that his spiritual instructor was high-nosed,4 cut off the nose of the latter when he was asleep: and then he went and cut off his wife’s nose, and stuck the nose of his spiritual instructor on her face, but it would not grow there. Thus he deprived both his wife and his spiritual guide of their noses.
“Now hear the story of the herdsman who lived in a forest.”