Thereupon the man says, "It is too little for me and my wife, and my boy and girl, for us four persons."

After that the King said, "I will give two thousand masuran, and expenses for eating for you four persons."

Thereupon the man said, "Having returned to my village I will go and call my wife and children to come."

As he was going, a jewelled ring of a Maharaja had fallen [on the path]. This man, taking the jewelled ring in his hand, thought, "It is bad for me to destroy this jewelled ring; this I must give to the King."

Thinking thus he went home, and summoning his wife and children came to the city. After he presented [95] that jewelled ring to the King, the King asked, "Whence [came] this jewelled ring to thee?"

This man said, "This jewelled ring as I was going to the village had fallen on the path. It is that [ring] indeed which I placed [before you] as this present."

After that the King [said], "A ring of a greater King than I! Because it is so it is bad to destroy this ring. What dost thou say about [thy reward for] it?"

"I say nothing. The thing that is given to me I will take."

Thereupon the King said, "Are you quite satisfied [for me] to give a district from the kingdom, and goods [amounting] to a tusk elephant’s load?" This man said "Ha."

After he said it the King gave them. Thereupon this man took charge of the guarding of the elephants.

One day when he was guarding the elephants the Rakshasa came. This man asked, "What came you for?"

The Rakshasa said, "It is to eat thee that I came."

This man said, "What will you eat me for? Eat our King," he said.

After that, the Rakshasa having come into the city, when he went near the King the King asked, "What hast thou come for?"

The Rakshasa said, "I came to eat you, Sir."

"Who, Bola, told thee?" the King said.

Thereupon the Rakshasa said, "The man who guards the elephants told me."

Then the King said, "What will you eat me for? Go thou and eat the man who guards the elephants." Afterwards the Rakshasa went near the man who guards the elephants.

Thereupon the man asked, "What have you come here again for?"

The Rakshasa said, "The King told me to eat you," he said.

After that, the man said, "[First] bring the few silver and gold articles that there are of yours," he said.

The Rakshasa having gone home, after he brought the few silver and gold things this man said to the Rakshasa, "Having come [after] drawing out a creeper, tie a turn on the elephant’s neck and on your neck tie a turn."

The Rakshasa having come after drawing out a creeper, tied a turn on the elephant’s neck and tied a turn on the Rakshasa’s neck. Afterwards this man said, "Ha; now then, come and eat me." When the Rakshasa tried to go dragging the elephant, the elephant struck the Rakshasa; then the Rakshasa died.

Afterwards, while this man, taking those few silver and gold things, is guarding the elephants, one day having been soaked owing to the rain when is he squatting at the bottom of a tree, a snake appeared.

This man thinking, "Ane! I must go to warm myself with a little fire," having gone away, when he looked about there were two Princesses in a rock-house (cave). Having seen them he went near [and said], "Ane! Will you give me a little fire?"