In the Kingdom of Harsapura, there was a merchant by the name of Samudrasura. He was very noble and charitable too.
One day the merchant left his city and went to the island of Savrnadvipa to do business.
Samudrasura made enormous wealth on the island that he had gone to and after that, Samudrasura decided to return home.
Unfortunately, while returning home, Samudrasura's ship was wrecked in a storm.
However the shipwreck was not very far away from the shore, and Samudrasura was able to swim to the shore of the place nearby.
When Samudrasura reached the shore he found a corpse there. The man, whoever it had been, had died in the same storm because of which Samudrasura’s ship had been wrecked.
Samudrasura found a knot around a pouch in the waist of the dead man and loosened it.
In the pouch, Samudrasura found a diamond necklace.
Samudrasura was shocked and a second later Samudrasura realized that this was a way of making up for the loss that had occurred because of the storm.
Samudrasura kept the jewel with him and went to the nearest city to the shore.
The merchant was exhausted and slept near a tree outside the city.
A city guard came up to the place where Samandrasura was sleeping and the guard found the diamond necklace on the merchant.
Within a few minutes the city guard realized that the necklace belonged to princess Chakrasena.
Thinking that they had caught the thief, the city guard led Samudrasura to the king of the place.
The king of the place looked at the jewel and did not listen to any of the explanations of the merchant and sentenced the merchant to the gallows.
Adapted from the Katha Sarith Sagara
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