The Rakshasa says, "To eat thee."

The Moorman says, "Five hundred goats are [there]. I will give them

to thee; let me go." Then he let go the Moorman. The Moorman, having

gone home, brought those five hundred goats and gave them.

After he gave them the Rakshasa again seized the Moorman. When he was

seizing him, he said to the Rakshasa, "I have brought and given thee

so many things; thou didst not eat them."

The Rakshasa says, "That is the truth. Take thy five hundred children;

take thy five hundred cattle." When he said thus, the Rakshasa,

taking the five hundred goats, ate. After that, the Moorman was sent

home by the hand of the Rakshasa. After he sent him, this Rakshasa,

having come to the Rakshasa's boundary, called the Moorman, and said,

"Please take charge of this jungle; I am going away."

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