The Yaksani said, "Let you and me wrestle. Having wrestled, should you
fall I shall not give him; should I fall I will give you your elder
brother." Both having agreed to it, they wrestled. Having wrestled,
the Yaksani lost.
After that, the Yaksani having caused that killed lad to come to life,
[72] gave him to that youth. Well then, the elder brother and younger
brother, both of them, having mounted on the back of the horse went
to the very city where the elder brother stayed. The younger brother
again came [home], having caused the elder brother to remain at that
very place.
Well then, that elder brother's boy having said, "Father, there is no
stopping here for us; let us go to another country," the two started,
and at the time when they were going they met with a tank.
The boy asked, "Father, how far (koccara taen) can you swim in
this tank?"
The boy's father said "Let us see," and having swum a little space
(tikak taen) being unable [to swim further] came back.
The boy said, "Father, if you cannot swim, clasping my hand let us go,"
he said. The man was held by the boy's hand.
While swimming, the boy when he was going to the far bank caught a
shark also. Having taken it also and gone to the far bank, he cut up
the shark and divided it into three. Having divided it, and eaten
two heaps of it, and taken the other heap, [73] they go away to
another country.
Having gone there they arrived (eli-baessa) at the palace (vimane)
of a Rakshasa. When they went two Rakshasa lads were [there]. The
Rakshasa and Rakshasi went to eat human flesh. The two Rakshasa lads
said, "Ane! What have you come to this place for? Should our mother
and father come they will eat you up (kala damayi)."
Then these two having said, "Ane! Don't say so; to-day you must
somehow or other (kohomawat) save us and send us away," those two
Rakshasa lads hid them.
The Rakshasa and Rakshasi came. Having come there, "What is this
smell of dead bodies?" they asked.
The Rakshasa lads [said], "Having come after eating men's flesh,
what do you say 'smell of dead bodies' for?"
Well then, the Rakshasi and Rakshasa swore, "We will not eat; son,
tell us."
At that place these two Rakshasa lads showed those two, father and son,
to these two. Although this Rakshasi and Rakshasa could not bear not
to eat those two, because they had sworn that day they were forbearing.
On the next day the two persons went away to another country. Having
gone there they arrived near a tank. Both having descended at the
bank, swam. When they were going to the middle of the tank both of
them being soaked with the water died.
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.