Then the Prince says, "Look here; he sprang into this water. Having
seen him coming, the King must be ready to seize him when he comes
to the surface."
Afterwards, the King descended from the back of his horse, and having
taken off the royal ornaments, putting on the bathing cloth [61]
got ready to seize the thief at the time when he rises to the surface.
Then this Prince deceitfully slackened a little the cord on which
he was treading with his feet; then the earthen pot which was in the
water rose to the surface a little. Having said, "Perhaps it is the
head of the thief," those Ministers and the King sprang into the water.
Then this Prince who was washing clothes, putting on those royal
ornaments, mounted on the [King's] horse, and said, "Look there! There
is the thief, seize him!" Then all having come near that King
seized him.
After that this Prince said, "Having tied him to the leg of this horse,
[you are] to strike him fifty blows." Then those Ministers, having
taken the King and tied him to the horse's leg, struck him fifty blows.
Having struck them, when they took him to the city the King's
father says, "That thief is indeed like my son." Having looked in the
direction of that Prince who was wearing the royal ornaments, he said,
"This indeed is not my son. What of that? There is a little like my
son's face."
After that, the Prince who was wearing the royal ornaments, said,
"Ask at your son's hand who I am"; he said it at the hand of the
Prince's grandfather. [62]
When he (the grandfather) asked at the hand of the King who had become
the thief, he said, "I do not know who he is."