The men say, “Shouldst thou eat us thy head will split into seven pieces.”
Then the Rākshasa says, “Art thou a greater person than I, Bola?” Thereupon the Rākshasa created and took the Rākshasa appearance. After he took it he asks, “Now then, art thou afraid of me now?” Then he ate a man. Seeing the other man, he seized his two hands.[5]
After he seized them that man says, “O Rākshasa, what didst thou hold me for?”
The Rākshasa says, “I hold thee for me to eat.”
“I have the tiger, greater than thee. Having employed the tiger I will kill thee,” [the man said].
Then the Rākshasa, having abandoned the Rākshasa appearance, created the tiger appearance. After creating it, when he seized that man he says, “Is there a child of thine?”
The man says, “There are two children of mine.”
The tiger says, “Am I to eat thee, or wilt thou give me thy two children?” he says.
Then he says, “Don’t eat me; I will give my two children.”
The tiger says, “Thou art telling lies.”