The tusk elephant having come, when it was making obeisance by kneeling
he mounted on the tusk elephant, and putting on the Crown and taking
the Sword in his hand, he went to the palace.
For the dead King there were five hundred Princesses. Having
separated them in a different house, he allowed the five hundred to be
[there]. Thereafter, after building separate houses for the Mi-flower
Princess, and for the Na-flower Princess, and for the Blue-lotus-flower
Princess, he sent them to them.
At the time when he was exercising the sovereignty in that manner,
the country of his parents who told [the executioner] to behead
this one, became abandoned. When this King was on the floor of the
upper story, while this one's elder elder brother, taking a bundle
of firewood [for sale], was going through the midst of the city,
the King saw him. Having called him, and after he had thrown down the
bundle of firewood having summoned him to come here, this King says,
"There is not permission for yourself to come again to this city,"
and he sent away this one.
At the next occasion, on the second day, at the time when the younger
elder brother was coming, taking a pingo (carrying-stick) load of
Jak [fruit], the King tells this one also. Calling him near he says,
"Why hast thou brought Jak? Has thy city become waste, or what? Why
is it?" he asks at the hand of this man who brought Jak.
At that time this one says, "Our country having become waste, there
is much scarcity of food to eat, for our King and people."
Thereupon this King says, "Canst thou come here with the three persons
(his parents and other brother)?"
This one says, "Ane! O Lord; send us two, for us to come with those
two." Thereupon the King, having been troubled [at the news], sent
the two persons.
These two having gone, say to this one's two parents,
"Ane! Father-King, that King says that we four persons--between that
city and this city there is a river--having come to the river he
says we are to remain [there]." Thereupon, because there was no food
for the four persons, and because they could not endure the hunger,
on the second poya day, at the time when the moon had risen they came
to the river, and stayed there.
Thereupon the King, and the Mi-flower Princess, and the Na-flower
Princess, and the Blue-lotus-flower Princess, sitting on the chariot,
went near the river. Having seen these four persons, and descended from
the chariot, he told that party of four persons to ascend the chariot.
Then the four persons say, "Ane! We cannot mount on this. Whether you,
Sir, [are going] to behead [261] us, or chop us [in pieces], [262]
or kill us [in some other way], we do not know. We cannot mount on it."
Making them mount by harassing them and combating [their objections],
[263] they came to the palace. Having come to the palace, after having
given them a separate house to live in, and given them expenses for
food, he said, "Don't you be afraid; you remain [here]," this King
says to these four persons.
At the time when a long period had gone by in this manner, the
King thought that with the four persons he must eat food at one
table. Having thought so, after three or four months he sent four
men to the four persons, and having caused them to bathe, and [then]
caused them to bathe in coconut milk scented with sandal-wood, [264]
and given to all the four persons four pairs of vestments that day,
[265] he told [the servants] to send food [for all] to eat at one
table.
They having sent the food [and] table, and the four persons sitting
down together with the Mi-flower, the Na-flower, the Blue-lotus-flower
Princesses, at the time when he tells them to eat the cooked rice the
four say, "Ane! We cannot eat at one table with you, Sir. How can you,
Sir, a King, and we, eat [together]?" these four persons say.
The King says, "Nothing will happen through your eating at one table
with me."
At the time when, through [his] harassing them and combating [their
objections], [266] they are eating [after] having sat down at one
table, the King asks, "Can you, or cannot you recognise me?" the
King asks.