Then out of the five persons one said, "I will give powers for one hand
to be created"; well then, for one hand to be created the Naga Maiden
gave powers. [For] the other hand to be created another Naga Maiden
gave powers. Also [for] the two feet to be created other two gave
powers. The other Naga Maiden's robes (salu) Kota hid himself. Those
four persons were conducted away [298]; one person stayed in that house
(that is, the one whose clothes he had concealed).
After that, the King came to look at the flower garden. Having come,
when he looked [299] the flowers [were] not plucked. Having become
pleased at that he gave Kota charge of the garden, to look after it,
and he gave a thousand masuran, also goods [amounting] to a tusk
elephant's load, a district from the kingdom.
That Kota handed over the district to the widow woman; those
goods [300] [amounting] to a tusk elephant's load he gave to the
woman. Having split his thigh he put those masuran inside it.
Tom-tom Beater, North-western Province.
In the Story of Madana Kama Raja (Natesa Sastri), p. 87, a Prince,
by the advice of an old woman for whom he worked, carried off the
robe of Indra's daughter when she came to bathe in a pool. He handed
it to the old woman, who in order to conceal it tore open his thigh,
placed the robe in the cavity, and stitched up the wound.