The King said, "How, girl, are men [affected like women]?"

Then the girl said, "So, indeed! You, Sir, told our father that having

built inner sheds and outer sheds, having milked milk from oxen,

and caused it to curdle, and having expressed oil from sand, [he is]

to place them [ready]. How can these be [possible]? In that way,

indeed, is the becoming of age by males [in the same manner as women]."

Then the King, having become pleased with the girl, asked yet a

word. He plucked a sesame flower, and taking it in his hand asked

the girl, "Girl, in this sesame flower where is the oil?"

Then the girl asked, "When your mother conceived where were

you. Sir?" [7]

Immediately (e parama) the King descended from the horse's back; and

placing the Gamarala's girl upon the horse, and the King also having

got on the horse, they went to the palace. The other girl came alone

to that girl's house.

On the second day, the King having sent the Ministers and told

the Gamarala to come, marrying the girl to the King she remained

[there]. The Gamarala also stayed in that very palace.

North-western Province.

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