Then the Tom-tom Beater says, "If so, I will say that the Gamarahami
ate rice-dust porridge."
Afterwards the Gamarala,--there is a little money in his hand,--having
given from it, taking the rice pestle, gave it to the Tom-tom Beater.
Again, when they had gone a great distance, a man is coming taking
a [wooden] rice mortar to sell. So the Tom-tom Beater again says,
"Gamarahami, Gamarahami, take that rice mortar, and be good enough
to give me it."
Then the Gamarala says, "Ane! Bolat, come thou on without speaking
there. Where have I money to that extent, to take and give you those
things?"
Thereupon the Tom-tom Beater says, "If so, I will say that the
Gamarahami ate rice-dust porridge." Afterwards the Gamarala took and
gave him the rice mortar also.
Again, when they had gone a great distance, a man is going taking a
millet stone (quern) to sell. The Tom-tom Beater says, "Gamaralahami,
you must indeed take and give me that millet stone."
Afterwards, anger having come to the Gamarala, he says, "O
Vishnu! [222] Bolat, where have I money to that extent?"
Then the Tom-tom Beater says, "If so, I will say that the Gamarahami
ate rice-dust porridge."
Afterwards, the Gamarala having given money to the man who owned the
millet stone, taking the millet stone gave it to the Tom-tom Beater.
Taking that also, again when they are going a great distance a Tom-tom
Beater is coming, taking a tom-tom. Again that Tom-tom Beater says
to the Gamarala, "Gamarahami, be good enough to take and give me
that tom-tom."
Then the Gamarala says, "Ando! I having come with this Tom-tom Beater
lump, [223] [see] what is happening to me! Where is the money to take
and give these things in this way?"
Having said [this], and given money to the man who owned the tom-tom,
taking the tom-tom and having given it to the Tom-tom Beater, again
they go on.
When the Tom-tom Beater, taking the rice pestle, and the rice mortar,
and the millet stone, and the tom-tom, all of them, was going with
the Gamarala it became night. After that, they went to a house to ask
for a resting-place. The house was a Rakshasa's house. The Rakshasa
was not at home; only the Rakshasa's wife was at home. This Gamarala
and Tom-tom Beater asked at the hand of the woman for a resting-place.
Then the woman says, "Ane! What have you come here for? This indeed
is a Rakshasa's house. The Rakshasa having come and eaten you also,
will eat me. Before he comes go away quickly."
Afterwards these two persons say, "Ane! Don't say so. There is
no place for us to go to now. Somehow or other you must give us
a resting-place."
After that, this woman said, "If so, remain without speaking, having
gone to that upper story floor." Thereupon these two persons ascended
to the upper floor, and stayed [there].
Then the Rakshasa having come, asked at the hand of the woman, "What,
Bola, is this smell of a human body that came, a human body that came?"
The woman says, "What is this thing that you are saying! Every day
you are eating fresh human flesh indeed; how should there not be a
corpse smell?" After that, the Rakshasa without speaking lay down.
Then to the Gamarala says the Tom-tom Beater, "Gamarahami, I must
go out."
The Gamarala says, "Remain without speaking. Now then, after the
Rakshasa has come he will eat us both."
Then this Tom-tom Beater says, "If so, I will say you ate rice-dust
porridge."
Thereupon the Gamarala says, "Owing to this one, indeed, I shall not
be allowed to save my life and go."