[183] Bhikkhus, formerly, in Takkasilā, a certain brahmin had an ox named Nandivisāla. Then, bhikkhus, the ox Nandivisāla said this to that brahmin: "Go, brahmin, make a wager with the merchant for a thousand, saying: 'My ox will draw a hundred carts bound together.'"
Then, bhikkhus, that brahmin made a wager with the merchant for a thousand, saying: "My ox will draw a hundred carts bound together."
Then, bhikkhus, that brahmin, having bound a hundred carts together and yoked the ox Nandivisāla, said this: "Pull, you cheat! Draw, you cheat!" Then, bhikkhus, the ox Nandivisāla stood right where he was.
Then, bhikkhus, that brahmin, defeated and having lost a thousand, brooded in dejection. Then, bhikkhus, the ox Nandivisāla said this to that brahmin: "Why, brahmin, do you brood?" "Because, good fellow, I have been defeated by you and lost a thousand." "But why, brahmin, did you demean me, who am no cheat, with talk of cheating? Go, brahmin, make a wager with the merchant for two thousand, saying: 'My ox will draw a hundred carts bound together' — but do not demean me, who am no cheat, with talk of cheating."
Then, bhikkhus, that brahmin made a wager with the merchant for two thousand, saying: "My ox will draw a hundred carts bound together." Then, bhikkhus, that brahmin, having bound a hundred carts together and yoked the ox Nandivisāla, said this: "Pull, good fellow! Draw, good fellow!" Then, bhikkhus, the ox Nandivisāla drew the hundred carts bound together.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.