[1] The narrator explained that when the rain came the snake would twist about inside the elephant’s head, and drive it mad. [↑]
No. 223
The Leveret, or the Story of the Seven Women
At a certain city there were seven women. The seven went into the jungle for firewood. Out of them one woman met with a young female Hare (Hā paeṭikkī). The other six persons brought six bundles of firewood; the woman brought the Leveret.
There were seven Princes (sons) of the woman who brought the Leveret. Out of them, to the youngest Prince she gave the Leveret in marriage.
The above-mentioned seven Princes cut a chena. Having sown millet (kurahan) in the chena it ripened. After that, for cutting the millet the six wives of the above-mentioned six brothers having come out, said to the youngest Prince, “Tell your wife to come.”
Thereupon the Prince says, “How are there women for me? My parents gave me a female Leveret in marriage.”
Thereupon the Leveret says, “What is it to you? ṭik; I am proud, ṭik.”[1] Having said it, springing into the house she stayed [there].