Story of the fool and the cakes.26
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Somadeva Bhatta, active 11th century and Tawney, C. H. (Charles Henry)
A certain traveller bought eight cakes for a paṇa; and he ate six of them without being satisfied, but his hunger was satisfied by eating the seventh. Then the blockhead exclaimed; “I have been cheated; why did I not eat this cake, which has allayed the pangs of hunger, first of all? Why did I waste those others, why did I not store them up?” In these words he bewailed the fact that his hunger was only gradually satisfied, and the people laughed at him for his ignorance.