The Prince says, "Mother, having given those thousand masuran that I took I have brought a Parrot."

Afterwards the Queen said, "We don’t want the Parrot. Take it and put it in the forest, and come back."

The Prince having taken the Parrot and put the Parrot also in the rock house in which is the Cobra, shut the door, and came back.

While he was there the Queen said, "Son, should the King see that you are [here] he will behead you. Because of it go to any place you like."

The Prince said, "Mother, give me a thousand masuran, and a packet of cooked rice." The Queen gave him a packet of cooked rice and a thousand masuran. Afterwards, the Prince having taken them, while he was at that travellers' shed again a man is taking a Cat which eats by stealth, in order to put it into the river.

This Prince asked, "Will you sell that?" The man said he would sell it. The Prince asked, "For how much?" The man [said], "I will sell it for a thousand masuran."

Afterwards the Prince gave the thousand masuran that were in his hand, and taking the Cat, and the Prince and the Cat having eaten the packet of cooked rice, the two came to the Prince’s city.

Then the Queen asked, "Son, on this journey what have you brought?"

The Prince says, "Mother, having given the thousand masuran that I took I brought a Cat."

Then the Queen said, "Don’t thou come again. Go to any place thou wantest."

The Prince said, "Mother, give me a thousand masuran, and a packet of cooked rice." After that, the Queen gave him a packet of cooked rice and a thousand masuran. The Prince, taking them and taking also the Cat, came to the rock house; and the whole four having eaten the packet of cooked rice started to go away.

Having gone away, and having gone near a large Na tree, [111] while they were there the Cobra said, "You stay [112] here until I come back [after] seeking the Naga King."

The Cobra having gone, and having returned near the large Na tree [after] seeking [and bringing] the Naga King, the Cobra said to the Naga King, "This Prince has been of very great assistance to me. Because of it you must set me free [by giving a suitable ransom]."

Afterwards the Naga King gave the Prince a gem-set ring (peraes-munda), and said, "With this ring you can create anything you want." [113] The Naga King, taking that Cobra, went away.

As this Prince and the Parrot and the Cat were going away the Prince thought, "Let a palace and a Princess be created here for me." Putting the gem-set ring on his hand he thought it. Then a palace and a Princess were created.

At the time when they were there, the Princess and Prince went to the sea to bathe. Having gone there, while bathing a lock of hair (isakeya raelak) from the head of the Princess fell into the sea. Having gone it became fastened in the net of net fishermen. They, taking it, gave it to the King. The King being unable to guess whether it was a hair or a golden thread, sent out the notification tom-toms. A widow stopped the tom-toms. Having stopped them the woman went near the King and said, "This is not a golden thread (kenda), it is indeed hair of the head (isakeya gahamayi)."

After that the King said, "Can you find the Princess who owns this hair?"

The woman having said, "I can," came to the very city where the Princess is. When she came there, there was not any work place there. She asked at the hand of the Princess, "How, daughter (pute), do you eat?"

Then the Princess says, "We eat by the power of the gem-set ring."

Afterwards, the woman that day night having stayed there, after the Prince went to sleep taking the gem-set ring and taking also the Princess [by means of it], gave them to the King.

The Prince having awoke, when he looked there were no Princess and no gem-set ring. The Parrot indeed knows the place where they are. He cannot summon the Princess and come [with her], he cannot get the gem-set ring.

Owing to it he told the Cat to be [lying as though] sleeping at the corn-stack threshing-floor (kola-kamate):--"While you are there the rats will put their paws into your mouth. Do not seize them. When the King has put his paws in it seize him; do not let him go."

After that, the Cat having gone [there], while he was [lying as though] sleeping at the corn-stack threshing-floor, the rats put their paws in his mouth. He did not seize them. The Rat King having come, and said, "One with cooking pot’s mouth (appalla-kata), are you asleep?" put his paw there. Then the Cat seized him. [He explained to the Rat King that he wanted a rat to assist him, as the condition on which he would release him.]

The Rat King said, "Seize thou any rat thou wantest." Having said, "Take this rat chief," he gave him. Afterwards the Cat let go [the Rat King].

The Parrot, calling that rat [who had been appointed to assist him], went to the palace in which was the Princess. After the rat had cut [his way into] seven boxes, there was a gem-set ring [in the last one].