*One man studied to be a fortune-teller
*One man studied To be an archer
*One man studied to be a diver
*One man studied how to bring the dead back to life.
Long, long ago, there were four men traveling to Takaseyla country in search of good teachers who could teach artistry to them. Of the four men, one learnt fortune telling; one learnt archery; one learnt how to dive and the fourth learnt how to resurrect the dead. The four men learnt from four different teachers at four different places. After having finished their studies, the four men said goodbye to their teachers to return to their homeland. It turned out to be late in the evening when they arrived at a seaside, so they
decided to spend the night there. In the morning, the man who learnt fortune telling said to the other three men: "Hey you guys, we are lucky this time as there will be an eagle catching the princess of the king in Peareanasey country flying over our place." The four men made a plan carefully and then hid themselves to keep a close watch on what would happen. A little long while later, the eagle catching the princess in its beak came flying exactly as predicted by the fortune-teller. The archer raised his bow and shot an arrow at the flying eagle, hitting it, thus forcing it to drop the princess into the sea. The diver hastily dived into the sea to rescue the princess. But unfortunately, the princess was already dead, so the man who learnt how to resurrect the dead magically brought her back to life. After the princess had come around, the four men started arguing with each other out of wanting her to be their own wife. The four men could not
find a good solution to the problem, so they agreed to go to see a judge and said: "Whose wife should this girl be?" The judge could not solve their case, so he took the four men to see the king and told the king about what had happened. The king thought that the four men had all rendered good deeds equally, so he ordered the fortune-teller to be the teacher, the archer to be the father, the man who knows how to resurrect the dead to be the mother and the diver who touched her body while bringing her out of the sea to be the husband. A long while later, the princess' husband became a king who took good care of the three others. The king solved the problem very fairly and impartially
