Then said that woman, "Sons, your father beat me."

Then the two youths say, "It is good, mother; if so, let him

beat." [159]

Thereupon the father called those two youths: "Having gone quite

along this path, let one go on the rock that is on the path,--one,"

he said. He told the other youth to stay below the rock. Then he said

to the youth who was going on the rock, "Having gone to the rock call

your younger brother."

Those boys having gone to that rock, the youth who went onto it

called the other youth. The tiger heard that word. Having heard it

he abandoned the tiger appearance; again he created the Rakshasa

appearance. [After] creating it, he came running near the rock,

the Rakshasa.

Then after that youth who stayed on the ground had seen that Rakshasa,

he seized the youth. After seizing him he says, "Who sent thee?"

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