After that, having become the fighting-cock, while he was so,
certain men having come asked for the fighting-cock. After that,
saying a great price and having given the cock, taking the cord that
had tied the cock, and the money, with the money for a little time
they obtained a livelihood.
After that the child said to his mother, "Mother, because we have
nothing for food or drink I will become a horse. Our teacher will
come to take me. You give only the horse; don't give the cord."
After that having become the horse, while he is it the teacher who
taught him came. Having come and having offered a price for the horse
he gave the money. Having given it, when he was preparing to bring
away the horse that woman said she could not give the cord.
At that time the teacher said, "I cannot give you the cord. I gave
the money for the cord with it"; and not having given the cord to the
woman, holding the cord and having mounted on the back of the horse he
made it bound along without stopping, as though killing it. Causing
it to bound along in this manner, when he was near a piece of water
the horse, being unable to run [further], taking the appearance of
a frog sprang into the water.
The teacher became angry at it, and having collected a multitude of
men besides, taking a net tried to catch the frog. At that time the
frog having become a golden finger-ring, and crept inside [a crevice
in] a stone step at the place where the royal Princess bathes at that
tank, remained [there]. Although that teacher with extreme quickness
made efforts to find the frog he did not meet with it.
After that, a royal Princess and a female slave having come to the
pool, when they were bathing the ring having been at the angle of the
stone the female slave met with it. Having met with it she showed
it to the royal Princess. Thereupon the royal Princess, taking it,
put it on her hand. Placing it on her hand, and having bathed and
finished, she went to the palace.
The Princess having been sleeping, eats the evening food at about
twelve at night. That day, in the night, the female slave, having
taken cooked rice and gone to the royal Princess, and having placed
it on the table, and made ready betel and areka-nut for the betel box,
and placed it [ready], went to sleep.
After all went to sleep, that ring, having loosened itself from the
hand of that Princess and having become a man, and eaten a share from
the cooked rice that was for the Princess, and eaten also a mouthful of
betel, and come near the bed on which the royal Princess is sleeping,
expectorated [326] on the Princess's clothes, and having come to her
finger, remained like a ring on her hand.
The Princess having arisen to eat the cooked rice, when she looked
[saliva stained red by] betel [and areka-nut] had been expectorated
on her clothes. Having said, "Who is it?" and having gone, when she
looked at the cooked rice at that time a half of the cooked rice had
been eaten. After that, not eating the rice, and thinking, "By whom
will this work be done?" she went to sleep. Regarding this she did
not tell anyone else.
On the following day, also, in that way she went to sleep. That day,
also, that ring having gone in that manner and eaten the cooked rice,
and eaten the betel, and expectorated on the clothes, and gone [back]
to the finger, remained [there]. The Princess that day also having
awoke, when she looked, that day also, having eaten half the cooked
rice and betel, he had expectorated on the clothes.
On the following day, with the thought, "Somehow or other I must
catch this man who comes," having pricked the Princess's finger with
a needle and put a lime fruit on it, except that she simply stays
closing her eyes, by its paining she remained without going to sleep.
That day, also, that ring, with the thought, "This Princess will have
gone to sleep," having loosened itself from the finger, when he was
becoming ready to eat the cooked rice the Princess having come and
said, "Who are you?" seized him.
Thereupon the youth having told her all the circumstances, while
staying there became the ring. The magic-performing boy, as it appears
to him by the various sciences, said to the Princess, "The teacher who
taught me the sciences will come here to-morrow to perform magic. I
shall become a good beautiful necklace on your neck. He having come,
and having thoroughly performed magic for the King's mind to become
pleased, will think of getting presents. Then the King will ask,
'What dost thou want?' At that time that person will say, 'We indeed
do not want any other thing; should you give that Princess's necklace
it will be enough.' Then the King will tell you to give it. Thereupon,
you, as though you became angry, having unfastened it from the neck
and crushed it in the hand, throw it away into the open space in front
of the palace. When throwing it there one grain will burst open. Then
that magician, taking the appearance of a cock, will pick up each
grain [of corn out of that one] and eat it. Then you remain treading
on one grain [of corn] with your foot. Having been treading on it,
when [the cock], having eaten all, is coming to an end, raise the
foot. Then I having become a jackal, catching the cock will eat it."