Then the King having been pleased, married and gave his daughter, also, to Sokkā, and gave him much wealth also.
During the time while Sokkā is dwelling in this manner at the royal house, Sokkā thought to drink arrack, [after] going and taking the ornaments that his wife is wearing. Having thought it, as though he had an illness he remained lying on a bed, not eating, not drinking.[4] Thereupon his wife having approached near him asked the cause of the illness.
At that time Sokkā asks, “Dost thou think that I have obtained thee (tī) without doing anything (nikan)? To obtain thee I undertook a great charge. The charge is that thou and I (tīt māt) having gone to such and such a mountain must offer gifts.”
Thereupon the Princess says, “Don’t be troubled. To-morrow we two persons having gone [there], let us fulfil the charge,” she said.
Sokkā having become pleased at it, on the following day, with a great retinue also, they went to fulfil the charge. Having gone in this manner, and caused the whole of the retinue to halt on the road, these two persons went to the top of the mountain. Sokkā thereupon says, “I have come here now for the purpose of killing thee, so that, having killed thee, taking thy ornaments I may drink arrack.”
Then the Princess asked, “If I and the ornaments belong to Your Honour,[5] for what purpose will you kill me?”
At that time Sokkā said, “[Even] should that be so, I must kill thee.”
The Princess thereupon says, “If Your Honour kill me now, fault will occur to you at my hand; because of it please bear with me until the time when you forgive me,” she said.
Having said thus while remaining in front of him, and having knelt, she made obeisance. Then having gone behind his back, and exhibited the manner of making obeisance, she seized his neck, and having pushed him threw Sokkā from the mountain, down the precipice. Sokkā having become scattered into dust, died.
After that, the Princess turned back with her retinue, and went to the royal palace.