A certain king used to inquire of all the sannyasins that came to his country."WHich is the greather man he who gives up the world and becomes a Sannysin,or the who lives in the world and performs his duties as a householder?"Many wise men sought to solve the problem. Some asserted that the Sannyasin ws the greater, upon which the king demanded that they should prove their assertion. When they could not, he ordered them to marry and become householder.Then others came and said, The householder who performs his duties is the greater man"Of them, too, the king demanded proofs. When they could not give them,he made them also settle down as householders. At last there came a young sannyasin. and the king similarly inquired of him also. He answered,"Each,O king,is equally great in his place"prove this to me."asked the king."I will prove it to you."said the Sannyasin,"but you must first come and live as I do for a few days, that I may be able to prove to you what I say The king consented and follwed the Sannyasin out of his own terrtory and passed through many other countries until They the great kingdom.In the capital of that kingdom a great caremony as going on.The king and the Sannyasin heard the nose of drums and music.and heard also the cricrs; the people were assembled in the Sannyasin stood there to see what was going on. The crier was stood there to see what was going on. the crier was proclaming loudly that the princess, daughter of the king of that country, was about to choose a husband from among those assembled before her It was an old custom in india for princesses to choose husbands in this way. Each princesshad certain ideas of the sort of man she wanted for a husband Some would have the handsome! man, others would have only the most learned, others again the richest, and so on All the princess of the neighbourhood put on their bravest attire and presented themselves before her.