"In such and such a country there is a very beautiful daughter of
the King. To marry her, first it is necessary to give masuran [equal]
to five tusk elephants' loads."
Thereupon the Emperor-King having loaded the masuran into a number
of carts, handed them over to the Prince. Well then, this Prince,
taking the masuran also, approached near the Princess's father, the
King. Having weighed his masuran, when he looked [into the account]
still a few were short. Because of it having sold even the tusk
elephant which the Prince brought, and having righted the five tusk
elephants' loads, after he showed them to the King, the father of
the Princess, he gave the Princess in marriage to this Prince.
Because of this Prince's act, the Princes who having come first to
marry the Princess and having been unable went away, became angry,
and formed the design to steal the Princess for themselves.
After the Prince lived in happiness for a little time at the palace
of the King, the father of the Princess, he asked the King, the
Princess's father, for permission to go to his own country with the
Princess. When he had asked permission even many a time because the
father of the Princess was very unwilling, by very strong effort he
set off to go, together with the Princess.
When going thus, the Princess's father gave her ten masuran. As these
two persons, taking the ten masuran, were going journeying they fell
into a great forest wilderness. Leaving behind the forest wilderness,
when they arrived at another country, because [only] two masuran
remained over for them, getting a living became very difficult.
Thereupon the Princess said to the Prince, "I know the means to earn
our living, therefore be not afraid. For [the value of] the remaining
two masuran bring threads of such and such colours," she said.
The Prince having brought them, the beautiful Princess knitted a scarf
[like one] she was wearing, and having put flower work, etc., [in it],
and finished, gave it to the Prince, and said, "Having gone taking this
scarf and sold it to a shop, please bring and give me the money," she
said. Thereupon the Prince having taken it and gone, and having sold
it for twenty masuran, thereafter bought at the price the requisite
threads of several colours, and gave them to the Princess. Well then,
while the Princess is making ready scarves, having obtained money
and rented a house at the city, she dwelt with the Prince.
While [they were] dwelling thus, a Prince came to the shop at which
she sold the scarves, and buying an invaluable scarf of these, and
ascertaining that it was the scarf woven by such and such a Princess,
asked the shopkeeper, "Who brought and sold the scarves?"
Then the shopkeeper said, "Such and such a handsome man sold them to
me," he said.
Having said, "When will the scarf trader come again to the shop?" and
having ascertained it from the shopkeeper, he came on the day which
the shopkeeper mentioned, in order to meet the Prince scarf trader.
Having come thus, and met with the very Prince who trades in the
scarves, and conversed well, he asked, "Who knits the scarves?"