The Yaka youngster (the former Rakshasa) says, "These beings called
Yakas are much afraid of Rakshasas. Let us two go into the Rakshasa
forest, the jungle (himale) where they are."
Then that Yaka says, "Is that also an impossible thing [for me]?" The
Yaka youngster became angry; then the two go to the Rakshasa forest.
A parrot having been at the side of the road at the time when they
are going away, says, "Don't ye go into the midst of this forest."
Then that big Yaka through fear says he cannot go. That Rakshasa
youngster says, "Where are you going?"
"I am going to the new grave," that Yaka said. Well then, having gone
to the burial place, he remains there.
A man, catching a thief, is coming [with him] to the burial
place. Having come [there], that man tied the thief to the corpse that
was at the burial place, back to back. Then while the thief is [left]
at the grave, the man came to his village. When he came he went to
the thief's house, and seeing the mother and father he says, "Don't
ye open the door; to-day, in the night, a Yaka will come." Having
gone to the house, also, of that thief's wife, he says, "Don't thou
open the door to-day; a Yaka will come to thy house to-day." Having
gone to all the houses and said this, he went away.
After that, taking on his back that dead body which was at the burial
place, the thief came to his house. When he came he tells the woman to
open the door. The woman is silent through fear. Then the thief says,
"I am not a Yaka; you must open the door." The woman at that time,
also, is silent through fear.
He went to his father's house, this thief. Having gone, he says,
"Mother, open the door." Then the woman through fear is silent. He went
to the house of the thief's friends: "O friend, open the door." Having
said, "This is a Yaka," the friends did not open the door.
That thief afterwards went by the outside villages. When he was going
on the journey the light fell. He went to the jungle in which is that
Rakshasa. When going, the thief met with a parrot. Then the parrot
says, "Friend, what did you come to this jungle for?"
The thief thought, "Who spoke here?" When he looked up he got to
know that the parrot is [there]. After that, he says to the parrot,
"What art thou here for?"