Thereupon, at the time when the giant prepared to cut the woman
with his sword, she said, "Ane! Don't cut me. I will give your
men." Having said it, and restored the three men to consciousness,
she gave them. [115]
Taking the giants also who had brought the fire, and having come again
near the last river, and roasted the fish, the four persons divided
it, and ate. He put the [back] bone of the fish into the river. The
four persons again began to go away.
After that, having gone to the city, when they asked for a rest-house
[the people] said, "The rest-house indeed we can give. A bone having
become fixed across in this river, water has become scarce [on account
of it]." They told them to remove the bone: "We will give a Princess
of our King's for removing it. That also (et) anyone is unable to
do." This speech the men of that country said to these giants.
After that, these giants having said, "It is becoming night
for us; we cannot go," stayed in the resting-place at that very
spot. [Afterwards], that giant of the ash-heap having gone and thrown
aside the bone, brought a pot of water.
Yet [another] man, breaking the bone, took a piece near the King. And
the King was ready to give the Princess to the man. Then the giant
who was on the ash-heap having gone near the King (raju), taking the
bone, said, "It was not that man; it was I who took and cast away
the bone." Thereafter the King beheaded the man who said it falsely.
He was ready to give the [Princess] to the giant who was on the
ash-heap. But the giant gave the Princess to the giant who uprooted the
Banyan-tree; and having planted a Lime-tree and put a Blue-lotus flower
into a small copper pot full of water, and said, "Should any harm occur
to me the Lime-tree will blanch, [116] or will become like dying; the
Blue-lotus flower will fade. At that time thou must come seeking me,"
the giant of the ash-heap began to go away [with the other two giants].
Having gone to yet [another] city he asked for a
resting-place. Thereupon they said, "Ane! We can give a resting-place
indeed. A lion having come eats the city people. There is not a means
of getting firewood [for cooking]. Also it is said that the King will
give our King's Princess to a person who has killed the lion."
After that, the giant of the ash-heap, getting a resting-place there,
took an axe, and having gone into the jungle, at the time when he
was walking about the lion was sleeping in the jungle. This giant
having chopped with the axe at the head of the lion and killed it,
came back [after] cutting off his ear.
Yet [another] man having come [after] cutting off the lion's head, gave
it to the King. Well then, the King became ready to give the Princess
to the man. At that time this giant having gone near the King, said,
"It is not that one who cut off the head; it is I [who killed it],"
and he gave him the lion's ear.
Thereafter, the King having beheaded the man who told him falsely, was
ready to give [the Princess] to the giant of the ash-heap. The giant
of the ash-heap gave the Princess to the giant who was stringing the
elephant on the fish-hook; and in the very manner as at first having
planted a Lime-tree and put a Blue-lotus flower in a small copper
pot of water and given him it, he said, "Should any harm occur to me
the Lime-tree will die, the Blue-lotus flower will fade. At that time
you must come seeking me;" and those two giants began to go away.
Having gone to a city they asked for a resting-place. Thereupon the men
said, "In our country we cannot give resting-places. A leopard having
come eats the men. There is a Princess of our King's. To a person who
has killed the leopard he will give the Princess, he said. That also
anyone is unable to do."
Notwithstanding, these two giants got the resting-place there. The
giant of the ash-heap taking also the axe, went into the jungle,
and when he looked the leopard was sleeping. The giant having chopped
at the leopard with the axe and killed it, came back [after] cutting
off the ear.
Another man having seen it, came [after] cutting off the head of the
leopard, and gave it to the King. When the King was becoming ready to
give the Princess to the man, the giant of the ash-heap went near the
King, and said, "It is not that man who killed the leopard; it is I,"
and he gave him the leopard's ear.
Thereafter, the King having beheaded the man who said it falsely,
made ready to give the Princess to the giant of the ash-heap. The
giant having given the Princess to the giant who stopped the water
with his foot, and in the first manner having planted a Lime-tree and
put a Blue-lotus flower into a small copper pot of water, and said,
"If there be any harm to me the Lime-tree will die, the Blue-lotus
flower will fade. At that time come seeking me," the giant of the
ash-heap began to go away alone.
Having gone to a city that had become abandoned, at the time when he
is looking at the houses in a street, a Princess having been in an
upper story says, "Our father having become insane, and having eaten
all the city people, now this city is desolate. Why have you come?"
Thereupon this giant said, "I came because of [the want of] a means of
subsistence." Having halted there, and that day having eaten cooked
rice from there, he asked at the hand of the Princess, "Are there
meneri [seeds] [117] and dried areka-nuts?" Thereupon the Princess
having said, "There are," sought and gave them.
The giant of the ash-heap put down the meneri from inside the open
ground in front of the house up to the house. The dried areka-nuts he
put above it. Having put them down, taking the sword also and half
shutting the door he remained [there]. At that time the King having
come, sprang towards the doorway [and slipped upon the loose seeds
and nuts]. Thereupon he of the ash-heap chopped at him with the sword,
and killed the King. [118] Having killed him, taking the Princess he
began to go away. Having thus gone, and having built a house near a
river, they remained there.
One day, when the Princess was bathing at the river, she uprooted
a hair [119] of the Princess's, and it fell into the water. The
hair having gone along the river, and having caught on a fish (malu
kuriyekuta), the fish swallowed it. The fish fell into the net of
the fisherman of the King of that country. Having cut open the fish,
at the time when he looked [inside it] a hair had been made into
a ball. When he unrolled the hair and looked at it, its length was
seven fathoms seven hands.
The fisherman gave it to the King. Thereupon the King said, "To a
person who should find and give me the woman who owns this hair,
I will give a fourth share from my city."
A widow woman said, "I can, if you will give me a ship." Thereupon
the King gave her a ship.
The widow woman having taken the ship, found the Princess. Having
been there a few days, she asked at the hand of the Princess, "Has
your husband confidence in you?"