Having seen that three Princesses who were at the city on the other side were bathing, he also was pleased at bathing there. After he had gone to bathe, the three Princesses of the King of the country on the other side, when they looked saw the good figure of this Prince.
After that, as the Prince wished to go after bathing, the youth who was to look after the horse having mounted it, began to ride away, wearing the Prince’s clothes, and taking the sword.
When the Prince, having bathed, and seen the Princesses on the other bank putting on their clothes, came ashore to put on his clothes, on his looking for them there were no clothes, no sword, no horse. The youngest Princess of the three who had bathed on the other side well knew what had happened.
This Prince, having on only his bathing cloth, bounded off, and while running along overtook the horse and youth. When he was still far away, the youth said, “Do not come near me; should you come I will cut you with the sword. If you are willing to look after this horse, take hold of its tail and come.”
Then because that one in any case must go to the city, he said, “It is good,” and having taken hold of the horse’s tail went with him. Going thus from there, they arrived at the city.
It was a custom of the King of that country that, having sent a guard, when any one of the men of another country arrived, he was to write the names of those persons, and come to the King. When these persons arrived, a guard being there asked their names. The youth who came on the horse said, “My name is Mānikka Seṭṭiyā; except the youth who looks after my horse, there is no one else with me.”
The guard having gone, said to the King, “Lord, a person called Mānikka Seṭṭiyārē has come and is there, together with a horse-keeper.”
Then the King thought, “Because the man called Mānikka Seṭṭiyārē has this name, Mānikka, he will be able to value my gem” (mānikya). A gem of the King’s having been taken through the whole country, no one had been able to value it.
So having summoned that Mānikka Seṭṭiyārē, the King, after giving him food and drink, showed him it, and said, “Mānikka Seṭṭiyārē, there is my gem. Can you value it?”
That Mānikka Seṭṭiyārē replied, “My horse-keeper will tell you the value.”