Thereupon the Siṭu daughter said, “Yes, I know it. When coming, he says three [times], ‘Hū, Hū, Hū’; that is, when he is setting off, one Hū, and while near the stile, one Hū, and while near the house, one Hū; he says three Hūs.”
Thereupon the Prince asked, “Are there dried areka-nuts?”
Afterwards the Siṭu daughter said, “There are.”
“If so, filling a large sack please come [with it],” he said.
The Siṭu daughter having brought a sack of dried areka-nuts gave them. The Prince also having put them down thinly at the doorway, the Prince sitting inside the house and taking his sword also in his hand, waited.
Thereupon he said the Hū that he says when setting out. At that time the Siṭu daughter in fear began to weep. When the Prince is saying and saying to the Siṭu daughter, “Don’t cry,” he said “Hū,” the other Hū near the stile. In a little time more having come to the open ground in front of the house saying a Hū, when he was springing into the house the Yakā fell on the heap of dried areka-nuts. At that time the Prince with his sword cut the Yakā into four or five [pieces].[5]
Taking in marriage the Siṭu daughter, while he was dwelling there a long time, to take in marriage the Siṭu daughter they began to come from many various countries, because the Siṭu daughter is very beautiful.
Out of them, a Prince caused the notification tom-tom to be beaten [to proclaim] that should anyone take and give him the Princess who is at the nobleman’s house in such and such a village, he will give him much goods. Thereupon a certain woman having said, “I can obtain and give her,” stopped the notification tom-tom, and having gone to the royal house, asking for three months’ time went to the village at which that Prince and Princess are, and having become the female servant at that house, remained there.
Meanwhile this woman asks the Princess, “Anē! Please tell me by what means your lord displays strength and prowess to this degree,” she asked with humility.
Thereupon the Princess said, “Don’t you tell anyone; our Prince’s life is in his sword.”