Afterwards the King and the Adikarama, after the foolish King had
taken off the royal ornaments, that very night, taking the disguise of
thieves, went to the garden. Having gone, they began to pluck oranges.
Then the gardener awoke. The man, taking his bow, and having come,
shot at the King; when he shot him (widapuhama) the King died.
After that, the Adikarama and the gardener spoke together, "What
shall we do about this?" Speaking [further] the Adikarama said,
"The things that are to happen happened." [39] Having said [this],
the Adikarama having told the gardener to cut a hole, when he cut it
they buried the King.
After that, the Adikarama said to the gardener, "Come, and go to
the palace."
The two persons having gone to the palace, and [the Minister]
having decorated the gardener with the royal insignia (abarana),
while he was on the Lion throne all the Chiefs make obeisance. [40]
The Adikarama does not make obeisance.
Regarding this matter the King thought he must tell him a
parable. Having thought so, and having called the Adikarama, he said,
"In the midst of the forest there are many kinds of trees. Having
cut a tree of good race out of them, and shaved [the bark off] it,
and planed it, and done carving work, they take it as a log for a
travellers' shed (ambalama). Taking it [there], after they have built
the travellers' shed, do both persons possessing lineage and persons
of no lineage stay in the travellers' shed?" [41] he asked.
When he asked, the Adikarama said, "All persons stay in the travellers'
shed."
After that, the King said, "[There is] service for persons possessing
the Adikarama lineage, service for persons of no lineage, service for
[all in] the world." [42]
After that, the Adikarama from that day made obeisance to the King.
Well then, the King remained exercising the sovereignty quite
virtuously (hondinma), without injustice.
North-western Province.
In The Orientalist, vol. ii, p. 55, a similar story is given, as
related to Mr. K. J. Pohath by a Buddhist monk. According to it,
the King visited the garden alone, pretending to steal Kaekiri
fruits, and was shot by the gardener. When he was dead the gardener
reported the matter to the Adikar, who got the King buried secretly,
and proclaimed the gardener King. Some poor people whose lands the
Adikar had seized complained to the new King, who held an enquiry,
and gave judgment in their favour, remarking, "Adikar, even though
it should so happen that I might be obliged to go back to the Kaekiri
garden, I cannot say that the lands in dispute belong to you."