Then the Prince said, "Ane! Stop there for me to look at her a
little." So the man stopped.
When this Prince went and looked, she was a Princess who was beautiful
to the extent that through sorrow he could not look at her. Thereupon
asking the man for the Princess, what does this Prince do? Having given
her to another woman, having given sufficient hire for it, he said,
"Having very thoroughly brought her up until she reaches maturity,
not showing her to anyone, hand her over to me." The woman said. "It
is good."
Well then, the Princess in not much time had reached maturity. After
that, this Prince, sewing suitable robes for the Princess, came,
and causing the Princess to put them on went with her to the palace
at which he stayed.
Then the King, having become angry at the Prince, contrived a stratagem
to kill her, that is, he wrote to a great person of the city,
"My Princess is [here]. To kill the Princess make ready an eating
(feast) at your house, and having put poison into the food for the
Princess send a letter to all of us to come for the eating."
So the great man having made it ready just like that, sent a letter
to this King for all who are at the royal palace to come. Thereupon
the King, having looked at the letter, prepared to go there.
This Prince perceived that it was a device which was adopted by
the King for the purpose of killing the Princess. Having perceived
it and told those parties to go before, at the time when they were
going this Prince and his younger sister, both of them, mounted on
a cart (carriage), and went along another path to the midst of a
forest. As they were going on, leaving the forest wilderness behind,
there was a city which a [wild] tusk elephant, having come, is making
desolate. They went to the city. While they were going to the city
it did not become light.
As this Prince and Princess were going, not knowing that there is a
tusk elephant laying waste the city, the tusk elephant walked through
the whole city, and having broken down the houses, while it was coming
to go back to the midst of the forest this Prince and Princess met
it in front.
Having met it, it chased the Prince and Princess along the road. As
it was going chasing them this Prince drew his sword and struck
it. Then the sword went and pierced the stomach of the elephant,
and it died. After it died they stayed that day night at the city.
The King of the city having gone with the city tusk elephant to stay
at night at certain other rock houses (caves), comes to this city
only for hearing law-suits in the daytime. Having come and repaired
the houses which that [wild] tusk elephant had broken, and heard
law-suits, as it becomes night he goes to the rock house.
The King [had] notified by beat of tom-toms [245]: "To the person who
[shall have] killed this tusk elephant I will give a portion from my
kingdom and marry my Princess, and I will send him to stay at this
city." Every one was unable.
On the morning on which this Prince killed the tusk elephant, men
came in order to build [the damaged houses in] the city. When they
looked about that day, they said that the tusk elephant is still
staying there, sleeping; and the men having become afraid, ran away.
After that, a man came, and having slowly come near the tusk elephant,
when he was looking at it perceived that was dead. Thereupon the man
having come near, when he looked [saw that] some one had stabbed the
tusk elephant.
There was a house near by. Having gone near it, when he looked he
saw that a Prince and a Princess were sleeping. Having seen them,
he spoke to the Prince and awoke him, and asked, "How did you kill
this tusk elephant?"