The Vessantara Jataka

Fifth episode, Jujok: Meanwhile, in a Kalinga village lives an old mendicant Brahmin named Jujok with his beautiful young wife who was married to him in payment of a debt her family had incurred. But the marriage between the ugly old man and pretty young girl causes the other wives in the village to mock and taunt her so that finally she no longer will to go to the well to draw their domestic water. She insists thet she be provided with servants for this purpose. Unwilling to deny her anything, but very poor and unable to secure servants or slaves, and having heard of the generosity of Prince Vessantara, living not far away, he resorts to seeking him out and asking for his children as servants.