Why doesn't your big toe have a nail? (From: Stimulating stories from Northern Thailand; nr 38)

This is about a monk who lived in the temple for a very long time. He was strict with his novice Chan. At that time, the sacred scriptures were written on dried palm leaves. When the monk got up in the morning, he took a metal engraving needle and sat down at a desk with a palm leaf on it.

When he wrote he rested the writing arm on his knee and by moving the knee his hand formed the letters. He stretched his other leg out in front of him. But even when he wrote, he taught the scriptures to his novice, Saw.

Saw recited the lines as the monk wrote them down. Turning a page, he looked at the lectern and discovered that the monk was sitting so that he could see his penis. His head was dark red! Now the novice was up to no harm; he just wanted to ask the monk to sit down properly, so he said, "Excuse me, Venerable One, but I see your cock."

'How dare you!' The monk hit the novice on the head. Bang! 'You and a dick? That's my big toe!' He overwhelmed the novice. "And now continue with the rules."

He had hurt the novice; the boy pouted. He was not at all sure that he had seen a big toe. He continued in the text where it said "Kammahangbakasento" and added "But a big toe usually has a nail."

The monk hit him on the head again. Bang! 'Idiot! This is a very young big toe!'

Yes, that's how this story went....

Source:

Titillating tales from Northern Thailand. White Lotus Books, Thailand. English title 'Why doesn't your big toe have a nail?'. Translated and edited by Erik Kuijpers. The author is Viggo Brun (1943); see for more explanation: https://www.thailandblog.nl/cultuur/twee-verliefde-schedels-uit-prikkelende-verhalen-uit-noord-thailand-nr-1/