After that, the Prince, begging a little water from the Princess, drank. After he drank, “Why is there no one in this palace?” he asked.
The Princess spoke, “My father the King, and mother went for bathing their heads with water.[4] I and the flower-mother alone are [here],” she said.
When the Prince asked on account of it, “Will the party come now?” “They will come now quickly,” said the Princess.
Then the King and the Queen, [after] doing the head-bathing, came. The King and the Queen having seen this Prince became greatly afraid. “Of what country are you, Sir? Who and whose?” they asked the Prince.
The Prince says, “I am a son of such and such a King of such and such a city,” he said.
Because of it, the Great King asked, “Came you with the thought of perhaps a war, or what?”
Then the Prince said, “No. After my mother died, while I was remaining in great sorrow, when my father the King, marrying another Queen, was there, for me a great shame entered my mind because of the Queen’s unseasonable action; and while the King went for a war I having forsaken my country came to this country.”
After that, the truth of it went to the Great King, to his mind. As soon as it went there,[5] when a [little] time was going by, having married and given the King’s daughter [to him], and made it public by the proclamation tom-tom, and having handed over the country also, he decorated them [with the regal ornaments].
While he was exercising the kingship of that country, the other Princes of the country, having become angry concerning this Prince and having thought of a means of killing him, said, “We will give the flower-mother five hundred masuran to give him this small quantity of poisonous drug, having deceived the Princess by some method or other.” [They said to her], “Should you do as we said, we will give you these presents.” Should she be unable in that manner they told her to [tell] the Princess to ask where the Prince’s life is.
In that way, the flower-mother having prepared a new [sort of] food for the Prince, and having also put [into it] this drug and deceived the Princess, at the time when the Prince is eating food she told her to give him this new food. This having seemed the truth to the Princess, at the time when the Prince was eating food she gave it. The Prince, too, having been much pleased with the food, and having eaten and drunk, finished. Owing to it, anything did not happen.