At that time the King and Minister, including also the Heṭṭiyā, speaking together, said, “This will be done to this one by the Gods. Therefore let us marry these three to this one; we did not marry and give the three to him.”
They married them accordingly, [and] the King handed over charge of the King’s kingdom [to him]. After that, he remained exercising the kingship in a good manner, with justice.
Another King having gone to the city in which the King the Prince’s father stayed, [after] fighting him and taking the city, banished the King and his Queen and Prince. After that, the three persons having come away arrived at the city where the Destiny Prince was ruling, and stayed there, obtaining a living by breaking firewood and selling it.
The Destiny Prince one day walking in the city, when returning saw that this King his father, and younger brother, and mother are selling firewood. Having seen them, and having come to the palace without speaking, he sent a messenger to tell the three firewood traders to come. The messenger having gone told the three firewood traders that the King says they are to come. Thereupon the three persons becoming afraid, and thinking, “Is selling firewood of the jungle of the Gods and getting a living by it, wrong?” in fear went to the royal palace.
Then the Destiny Prince asked, “Of what city are you?”
The party said, “We were exercising the kingship of such and such a city. Another King having gone [there], oppressing us and seizing the kingdom, told us to go away. Because of that, having come away and arrived at this city, we remain getting a living, breaking firewood in the jungle.”
Thereupon the Destiny King asked, “When you were staying at that city how many children had you?”
The firewood trader said, “I had two Princes.”
Then the Destiny King asked, “Where then is the other Prince? Did he die?”
The firewood trader said, “That Prince did not die. One day, when I was asking that Prince and this Prince, ‘Is Destiny the greatest thing or not?’ the Prince said, ‘Destiny is the greatest’; this Prince said, ‘It is insufficiently great.’ Because of it I sent him out of the kingdom.”