Thereupon the Devatawa, having given the man three pills, says,
"Taking these three pills, having thought of the thing thou wantest
cast them down. The things thou wantest will be created."
Then the man, taking the pills, for one said, "May my house be created
a palace, together with the possession of wealth," and threw away
one pill. In that manner this occurred.
For the next one he said, "On each side of the door-way of my house,
may a horse of silver and a tusk elephant of gold be created," and
threw away a pill. In that manner they were created.
For the other one he said, "A road to my house having been created, let
a carriage for me to go in, and many things come into existence," and
threw away the other pill. In that very way they were created. After
that, having come home he remained in happiness.
After that, a woman of another house came to this house for
fire. Having come and seen these matters, she asked this woman,
"Sister-in-law, how did you obtain these things?"
Thereupon this woman says, "Having beaten my husband with the broom,
I caught him by the hair-knot, and put him out at the door-way,
to seek goods and come back. After that, he went, and having been
near a tree came back [after] receiving them." Having said [this],
she told the woman about these matters [and that her husband received
the things he thought of].
Afterwards the woman, having gone home and beaten the woman's husband
with the broom, caught him by the hair-knot, and put him out at the
door-way. The man having gone also, stayed near the tree, weeping
and weeping.
At that time, by the Devatawa three pills were given (lit., gave) to
[this] man also. The man, taking them, came home.
Thereupon the woman having warmed water, and made him bathe, and
given him to eat, and given him betel to eat, asked the man, "What
have you brought?" The man showed her the three pills.
The woman, taking the three pills in her hand, and having looked at
them, said, "Are these ani that you have brought?" and threw them
away. Then in every place on the woman's body ani were created.
Then for three years having striven, finding the three pills she said,
"Leaving the anus which was there, may the others be obliterated,"
and having picked up the three pills she threw them away. Thereupon
she became as at first.
North-central Province.
The plight of the woman is nearly similar to that of Indra after he
had been cursed by Gautama for visiting Ahalya, as related in the
Katha Sarit Sagara, vol. i, p. 123.
In Folklore in Southern India (Natesa Sastri), p. 208, while an
indigent Brahmana was asleep in a forest, the God Siva and his wife
Parvati ate his cooked rice, leaving in its place five magic cups
of gold out of each of which an Apsaras came and served him with
delicious food. After he had returned home and given a feast to the
villagers, a rich landholder went off to obtain similar prizes,
the God and Goddess ate his rice, and left five cups for him. As
soon as he returned home he summoned the whole village to a feast;
but when the cups were opened out several barbers issued from each,
and held and shaved all the guests clean.
In the Arabian Nights (Lady Burton's ed., vol. iv, p. 114) a man heard
in the Night of Power that three prayers would be granted to him. After
consulting his wife, he prayed that his nose might be magnified, as a
sign of his nobility, and it became so large that he could not move. He
then prayed to be rid of it, and his nose disappeared altogether;
his last prayer caused it to be restored to its first state.