"If you swear by the censure of your deity, I will show you my
husband," she said. Afterwards she swore.
After she took the Prince into the light, she asks the Prince,
"What do you eat?" The Yakshani asks.
The Prince said, "I eat ripe Jak, Waraka (a kind of Jak fruit),
Sugar-cane, Pine-apples." The Yakshani went and brought and gave
him them. Afterwards, after the Prince ate, she said, "Where are
you going?"
Then the Prince says, "Tell me the path [by which] to go to the
Kule-Baka garden."
Having informed him of the path, and given him also a robe [endowed]
with the power of flying through the air, she told him to go. He went
to the Kule-Baka garden, and [after] plucking the Kule-Baka flower
that was in the pool, having come, calling the Princess, to the place
where he gambled, he caused her to remain there.
The Prince, taking the Kule-Baka flower, was going near his father the
King. At the time when he was going across a river those six Princes
were [there], cooking and cooking rice. Also at that very place a rich
man without his two eyes was saying and saying, "To a man who should
cure my two eyes I will give goods [amounting] to a tusk elephant's
load, and also a tusk elephant." He was saying and saying [this].
This Prince having heard it, said, "I will give you them. [Please]
bring the presents you mentioned." After he brought them he rubbed
[298] his eyes with the Kule-Baka flower; after that, he succeeded
in seeing the light.
Those six Princes having seen it, spoke together: "Let us beat him,
and snatch away the flower."
The Prince having heard that speech, said, "Taking this flower for
yourselves, give me a little cooked rice." Afterwards, taking the
flower they gave him cooked rice. Having eaten the cooked rice the
Prince came back to the place where he gambled.
After that, while through hunger for them he was going to seek the
Surangana flowers, three Princes who were coming mounted on horse-back
asked this Prince, "Where are you going?"
Then the Prince says falsely, "I am going in hunger in the midst of
this forest." Then a Prince having unfastened a packet of cooked rice
and given the Prince to eat, they went away.
As they were going, this Prince went after them very softly. Having
gone, when he looked he saw that those three Princes, having descended
from horse-back, three times turned round the dewala (temple), and
jumped into a vessel of boiling oil [and disappeared].
Having seen it, this Prince also having turned round the dewala three
times, jumped into the oil vessel. After he jumped in, the deity,
bringing that Prince out of the oil vessel, covered him with a white
cloth when he had struck [him] three blows with a white wand. After
he arose, when he asked, "What is the matter for which thou camest
here?" [the Prince replied], "I came in order to seek and take
Surangana flowers."
Then the deity told him the path:--"Look there. When you are going
along that path [you will meet with a pool. When she has put her cloth
on the bank and is bathing], take the cloth of the woman who comes
after three others to bathe in the pool, and come back [with it],"
he said.
After that, he took the cloth, and came. Afterwards that Princess
having come running, gave him a chank shell into which she had put
[magical] life, and taking the cloth went away.
When he was coming taking the chank shell, an ascetic begged for the
chank shell. The Prince says, "If you will give me presents I will
give you the chank shell," he said.
After that, he gave him a wallet (olo-payiya), assuring him that the
things thought of will come into existence [in it]. After he gave it,
the Prince, thinking of the things he wanted (the celestial flowers),
put his hand into it, and when he looked they were inside the wallet.
After that, the Prince, having become satisfied, with pleasure went
away [and rejoined his two wives].
North-western Province.
See the Notes appended to the previous story.
In The Indian Antiquary, vol. iii, p. 150, in a legend of the origin
of Patna, by Mr. Basanta Kumar Ningi, two Rakshasas came to a boy with
three articles left by their father, out of which he cheated them. One
was a bag from which all kinds of jewels could be extracted when the
hand was inserted. The story is stated to be from the Brihat Katha. In
the Katha Sarit Sagara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 13, they were the sons of
the Asura Maya, and were wrestling for the things. The boy suggested
that they should race for them and while they were doing so he put
on the magic shoes which were included in them, and disappeared with
the staff and the vessel which supplied any required food.
In Folk-Tales of Kashmir (Knowles), 2nd ed., p. 378, a shipwrecked
Prince arrived at a cave which was the residence of a Rakshasa who
had carried off a Princess, and who kept her there. She received
him well, and hid him in a strong box. When the Rakshasa returned
he smelt the man, and insisted on being shown him; but the brave
behaviour of the Prince pleased him, and he permitted him to live
in the cave, and brought presents for the two when he returned from
his expeditions in search of prey. As they still feared he might eat
them, the Princess managed to ascertain from him that his life was in
a queen-bee in a honey-comb which could be reached by anyone who sat
on a magic stool that was in the cave, which transported the sitter
where he wished. Next day, when the Rakshasa was absent, the Prince
wrapped himself up, smashed the comb, crushed and killed the bee,
the Rakshasa died, and they escaped on the stool.