At a certain city there were a Prince and a Princess. One day when
the two are staying talking and talking, the Princess says, "Lord,
please tell a story for me to hear," she said.
Then the Prince said, "It is good. I know a story that no one knows;
I will tell you it," and beginning it he told the story.
At the time when he was telling it a Brahmana was listening. The
Brahmana having gone away, said to the Brahmana's wife, "I know a
story." Then the woman said, "If so, tell the story, for me to hear
it." The Brahmana told the story.
The Brahmana's wife also learning it, having come on the following
day told the story to that Princess. The Princess asked the Brahmana's
wife, "Who told you this?" Then the woman said falsely, "I learnt it
[some time] previously."
Well then, this Princess having said [to herself], "My Prince is
indeed associated with this woman. If not, how does this woman know
to-day the story which my Prince told yesterday for me to hear?" and
having become angry with the Prince, the Princess also associated with
another Prince. This Prince, ascertaining this, killed the Princess.
In no long time after that, the thought having occurred to the Prince,
"If my Princess were [here] it would be good for me," having walked
throughout the whole of Lankawa (Ceylon) he looked where the Princess
is now. [42]