When they were going still a little distance there was a heap of fence sticks. Concerning it the Prince asked, “Father-in-law, are these cut fence-sticks, or uncut fence-sticks?”
Then the father-in-law says, “What of their being cut! If they are not sharpened these are uncut sticks.”
Well then, having gone in that manner, and gone to the Prince’s city, he made the girl and the girl’s father stay in a calf house near the palace, saying, “This indeed is our house.”
The Prince having gone to the palace said at the hand of the Prince’s mother, “Mother, I have come, calling After that, the Queen having gone near the calf house, when she looked a light had fallen throughout the whole of the calf house. The girl was in the house. After that the Queen, calling the girl and the girl’s father, came to the palace. Well then, the girl, and the girl’s father, and the Prince remained at the palace. Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province. The questions and answers remind one of those asked and given by Mahōsadha and Amarā, the girl whom he married, in the Jātaka story No. 546 (vol. vi, p. 182), and one remark is the same,—that regarding the river water. Heroines are sometimes described as emitting a brilliant light, as in No. 145, vol. ii. In Indian Fairy Tales (M. Stokes), p. 158, there is a Princess who “comes and sits on her roof, and she shines so that she lights up all the country and our houses, and we can see to do our work as if it were day.”