Having gone, and having placed the things he took at the bottom of a tree, he began to cut jungle. Having cut three and a half chenas,[1] and come [to the tree] and eaten the seven cakes and the flesh of the deer which he took, and drunk a gourd (labbak) of water, he cut another three and a half chenas, and went home.
A little time having halted and been at home, he came back to the chena, and having set fire to it he began to work [again]. Having sown it and finished, bringing his wife and bags after the millet (kurahan) ripened they went to the chena, and she began to cut the millet. In the whole seven chenas she cut the millet in just one day. Having cut it and collected it at one place, together with the man she dragged[2] (carried) it home. That she cut the millet in the whole seven chenas the man was much pleased.
Having finished with the millet work, there having been a little paddy of his he cut that little, and collected it together.
Having said that he must go to his father-in-law’s village, while he is going away [after] tying five pingo (carrying-stick) loads, when going along through the middle of the King’s rice field the men who are in the field seized him.
Thereupon he says, “Don’t seize me. There being no paddy for me to cut, a little paddy of my father-in-law’s has ripened; to cut that little and return, I am going [after] tying also five pingo loads [of presents for my father-in-law]. I am unable[3] to stay to cut paddy [for you],” he said.
Thereupon, the men while giving answer asked, “Bola, any person who goes through the middle of this field goes [after] having cut paddy.[4] If thou cut [some] and went, would it be bad?”
Thereupon, the man began to cut the paddy. Having cut the seven amuṇas (about sixteen acres), and finished, he descended to the unripe paddy[5] and began to cut it. Having cut the unripe paddy and finished, he began to cut the young paddy.[6] That he cuts with an elephant’s-rib pin.
When he is cutting the young paddy, the men having gone running to the royal palace, say, “We called and got a man who was going on the path. That man having cut down all the [ripe] paddy is cutting the young paddy,” they said.
Thereupon the King having come to the rice field and called the man, when he asked, “What are you cutting the unripe paddy for?” the man says, “When I was going to father-in-law’s village [after] tying five pingo-loads, they told me to cut paddy,” he said.
The King calling the man and having gone with him [to the palace], tied ten pingo-loads more, and sent him away with men [carrying them], it is said.