The Devata-daughter said, "I will give them; I have them."

Then he drove away the horse twelve yojanas before half a paeya [had

passed]. Having driven it, when he went to the city the King asked

the Prince, "Have you brought the gems?"

That Yaksani had previously [249] said at the hand of the Prince

that when the King asks, "Have you brought the gems?" he is to say,

"I have brought [them]." Because of it, the Prince said, "I have

brought the gems."

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