The woman said, “Why, son? Do not say anything about it. That house is the house of a courtesan. There is a gambling game of that woman’s, and by it many persons, having lost, remain as prisoners.”
The Prince asked, “Mother, how does one win by that game?”
Then the woman said, “A bent lamp having been lighted, is placed at the gambling place. Below the lamp a cat is sitting. While the woman is gambling the cat raises its head; then victory falls to the woman. When another person is playing the cat lowers its head; then defeat falls to that man. If you are to win, having extinguished the bent lamp, and driven away the cat, and brought and placed there another lamp, if you should then play you can win.”
After that, the Prince went to gamble. Having gone there, when he was ready to gamble she said, “Should you lose in gambling, you will be condemned to imprisonment; should you win you marry me.”
The Prince said, “It is good,” and gambled. When he was losing, he extinguished the lamp, and having beaten and driven away the cat, he told the woman to bring another lamp. After that, the woman brought a lamp. Having brought and placed the lamp there, they gambled. The woman having lost all, the Prince won. Afterwards, that woman married this Prince.
During the time while he was living there, as this Prince was starting to go and bring the Kulē-bakā flower, the woman said, “Don’t go.”
The Prince said, “I did not come for this gambling; I came for the Kulē-bakā flower. I must indeed go, after having set off for this purpose,” he said. So the Prince went to bring the flower. Before this, he had allowed the imprisoned men to go, and said to the four Princes, “Stop until I return.”
Having thus gone, he entered into the midst of a forest. While he was there, human-flesh-eating serpents and forest animals that were in the midst of the forest sprang to devour this Prince, but he made supplication to his deity, so they were unable to do it, and went away.
Then the Yakā who was guarding the Kulē-bakā garden, having seen the Prince, and having arisen and come near the Prince, asked, “Have you, a man born in the world of men, come into my presence to be a prey to me?”
The Prince said, “My father the King for a fault said he must behead me. On account of it, having made my way into the midst of the forest, I have come to you for you to eat indeed. If you are going to eat me, eat me; if you are going to keep me, keep me alive.”