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Raajaa Shibi was a great donor. So once to test his large heartedness, Indra and Agni Dev once appeared in his court in disguise of a Hawk (or falcon) and a Pigeon. Being chased by the hawk, Pigeon took refuge in King's lap. The Hawk which closely followed  demanded his prey contending that the bird was allotted to him as his food and King had no right to take his food from him.

The King was not prepared to give that tiny creature coming in his protection, so he requested him to take many other animals' flesh in exchange of that bird. But the Hawk did not agree for that as he did not want to take other's lives. Then Raajaa offered his own flesh, to which the Hawk agreed. 

So Raajaa got a scale in the court, put the Pigeon on one side and started putting his own flesh on the other side of the scale. But Raajaa's flesh was never got equal to the Pigeon's flesh. He kept keeping his flesh, chopping little by little, on the scale but the Pigeon was always outweighed it. At last the King had to offer his whole body to Hawk. The then both birds took their real form and blessed Raajaa and made him whole as before.

Another Version
Its another version is that when Raajaa got ready to give his own flesh, the Hawk said - "Your flesh must come from your right part of the body." "No problem." And the King started cutting his flesh from right the side of his body. After a while when the scale's pigeon side never got equal to his flesh weight, a tear stopped in the King's left eye corner.

The Hawk cried - "Stop, I do not want any unwilling sacrifice." The King replied - "This is not the tear of unwillingness, but it is because my left part is sad, because it has been avoided to serve the hawk." Immediately Hawk and pigeon changed into Indra Dev and Agni Dev and blessed him. They made his body whole and went away to their Lok.

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