So all this party of Queens went and stayed in one spot, and there all the twelve bore children. As each one was born, they divided and ate it. The youngest Queen put aside all the flesh that was given to her, and while she was keeping it she, also, bore a son. Then those eleven Queens made ready to eat that Prince, so that Princess gave them the flesh which she had kept, and the party ate it.
As time went on that Prince having grown a little, began to bring and give them fruits that were lying on the ground. Then the Prince met with a bow and an arrow that had been concealed there. After that he began to shoot various kinds of small animals, and to bring and give them to the Queens. Afterwards he shot large animals, and having brought fire and boiled them, he gave the flesh to them. By this time the Prince understood all things thoroughly.
After that, one day this Prince asked, “Mother, what is the reason why your eyes have become blind, and my eyes are well?”
The party said, “We were the Queens of such and such a King; having taken a Yaksanī in marriage, this was done to us through her enmity.” Then the Prince remained thinking of killing the King.
One day, as he was going hunting, he met with a Vaeddā. Thinking he would kill the Vaeddā, the Prince chased him along the path. The Vaeddā, being afraid, went running away, and having met with the King said, “O Lord, Your Majesty, there is a very handsome Prince in the midst of this forest. One cannot say if the Prince is the son of a deity or a royal Prince. He does not come near enough to speak. When he sees a man he drives him away, saying he is going to eat him.” He spoke very strongly about it.
So the Ministers were sent by the King, who told them to seize and bring him. As the party were going to seize him, he sprang forward, saying that he was going to eat them. At that, the party became afraid, and ran away. Having come running, they told the King, “O Lord, Your Majesty, we cannot seize him. He comes springing at us saying he is going to eat us.”
Then the King came, bringing his war army. Thereupon the Prince, who before that was angry with the King in his mind, threw a stone in order to kill the King, and struck him. Being struck by the stone, the King’s head was wounded (lit. split), so the King and all of them became afraid, and ran away.
The King, having returned, wrote letters to foreign countries: “There is a wicked Prince in the midst of the forest in my kingdom. Who he is I cannot find out. Because of it you must come to seize the Prince.”
The Prince having got to know of it, and thinking, “It is not good for me to be killed at the hands of these men; having met with the King I will kill him,” went to the royal palace. When he arrived there the King saw him, and asked, “Who are you?”
The Prince said, “I am a royal Prince; I stay in the midst of this forest.”