Thereupon the Princess says, "You having been set in line, all at
one discharge shoot. Having shot, I will join the person whose arrow
should fall far, who came [after] picking up the arrow, and will come
[with him]," she said.
At that time the whole of the party having been fixed in line shot
[for the arrows] to go very far. Having shot, all ran for the purpose
of bringing the arrows. Thereupon the Princess having struck the horse,
driving it off went away without being perceived. The Vaeddas having
got the arrows and come, went away without the Princess.
When she was going to that side from the forest wilderness in which
are the Vaeddas, the Princess thought that should she go by the
carriage she will be unable to escape. So she descended from the
carriage to the ground, and having unloosed the horse drove it into
the jungle. She rolled the carriage over into the jungle.
The Princess having thrown away the Princess's dress, dressing like a
Hettiya went away. In this manner she went to another kingdom. In that
country, establishing shops, there was a rich Hettiya. She approached
near him. At that time the shopkeeper Hettiya having become much
pleased with the [apparent] Hettiya, told him to remain there. Well
then, the shopkeeper Hettiya asked, "Who art thou?"
Thereupon the Princess said, "I am a Hettirala of a country; I came
to establish a shop."
The shopkeeper having heard that word, said, "If so, let us two
trade in partnership." Having said [this] he handed over a shop to
the Princess resembling a Hettiya. He gave for it suitable servants.
At that time this Princess says, "I having come to a new country, when
establishing a shop have the thought to give a dana (free donation
of food), and secondly to establish the shop."
Thereupon the shopkeeper Hettirala having become pleased, and having
said, "Let us two pay the amount that the cost comes to," they gave
the dana.
Then that horse-keeper Prince having come, approached there. The
Hettirala having seen the horse-keeper gave him alms. The [Princess]
Hettirala after the man ate the food put him in a house and told the
servants to shut the door.
During that night having given the dana and having finished, "Whence
are you?" the new Hettirala asked the horse-keeper.
At that time the horse-keeper said to that Hettirala, "Ane! Hettirala,
I indeed am a royal Prince. The Princess whom I had married, driving
off in the horse-carriage came here. I also having become hungry when
coming here [saw that] there was an alms-house. Because of it I came
here," he said.
The Hettirala, having cast off those clothes and put on clothes in
the manner of a Princess, came and asked, "Am I the Princess?"
Having said, "You indeed are my Princess," holding her hand he began
to weep. The clothes that she wore like the Hettirala that Prince
put on. After that, having gone near the shopkeeper Hettirala, they
told him completely the things that occurred to these people. This
Hettirala having become pleased at it told them to stay at that very
shop. The two persons trading at the shop and having become very
wealthy, remained at that very city.
Western Province.