The Prince said, "I will take anything I receive." After that the
King gave him villages, gave goods.
After that, staying in these villages, that man and the Prince, both
of them, were obtaining a livelihood from the goods. At the time when
they were [there], the King had become very aged. While he was thus
the King died.
For the King there was neither a Prince nor anyone. Because of it, at
the time when the Ministers, decorating the tusk elephant, are going
in the four streets with the sound of the five musical instruments,
the tusk elephant, having gone to the house at which are that Prince
and the man, kneeled near that Prince.
Having been [there] at the time when it was kneeling, the Ministers,
causing the Prince to bathe in scented water, and placing the Prince
on the tusk elephant, came to the royal palace, [and he became King].
Until the end of the Prince's life he remained exercising the
sovereignty. The man who stayed with the Prince having become the
Minister to the King, stayed in the palace itself.
North-western Province.