The Rākshasa said, “I came to eat you, Sir.”
“Who, Bola, told thee?” the King said.
Thereupon the Rākshasa 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 Rākshasa went near the man who guards the elephants.
Thereupon the man asked, “What have you come here again for?”
The Rākshasa 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 Rākshasa having gone home, after he brought the few silver and gold things this man said to the Rākshasa, “Having come [after] drawing out a creeper, tie a turn on the elephant’s neck and on your neck tie a turn.”
The Rākshasa having come after drawing out a creeper, tied a turn on the elephant’s neck and tied a turn on the Rākshasa’s neck. Afterwards this man said, “Hā; now then, come and eat me.” When the Rākshasa tried to go dragging the elephant, the elephant struck the Rākshasa; then the Rākshasa 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.