The girl asked, “What are you angry for?”
The Prince said, “I must go to look at the Kulē-bakā garden.”
Then the girl spoke about this matter to her mother. So that woman having fetched rats, caused a tunnel to be made by them to the Kulē-bakā garden. Along that tunnel the Prince went to the flower garden, and having gone there, and plucked the flowers, came back again.
Having returned there, calling Maha-Mudā he came to the house of Diribari-Lakā. Having arrived there, he burnt on the lower part of the back the four Princes who had remained as prisoners. The Prince who went for the Kulē-bakā flowers having burnt in this way the four Princes, who stayed as slaves at the house of Diribari-Lakā, these four persons were freed from imprisonment.
Then the Prince, Maha-Mudā, and Diribari-Lakā, taking the flowers, came to the Prince’s native country. Having arrived there, he burnt the Kulē-bakā flowers on the two eyes of his father the King, and the two eyes of the King became well.
After that, the King having asked the Prince regarding these matters, learnt that he was the King’s Prince, [and he and his two wives continued to live there with him].
North-western Province.
In Wide-Awake Stories (Steel and Temple), p. 276 ff.—Tales of the Punjab, p. 263, 264—a rat assisted King Sarkap in games at Chaupur (the Pachīs game), until it was frightened by a kitten that Prince Rasālu had rescued from a potter’s kiln.
At p. 250 of the former work it was predicted that if his father saw the Prince during the twelve years after his birth, he (the father) would die.