Then the Prince said, “O Lord, Your Majesty, I will interpret that dream, but I must first go in search of the explanation.”
After that, the three Princes obtained leave of absence for three years. Having got it, the three persons, cooking a bundle of rice, and taking from their father permission to depart, started to go in search of the interpretation. Having gone on and on, they came to a junction of three roads. Having arrived at it, and eaten the bundle of cooked rice, the eldest Prince said, “I will go along this road; you go on those two roads.” So the eldest Prince went along one road, the second Prince went along another road, and the youngest Prince went on the remaining road.
Having gone on and on, the youngest Prince arrived at the house of a widow woman. The woman said, “Anē! Son, what have you come here for? We have not even firewood for cooking.”
The Prince asked, “Why, mother, is that?”
The widow woman said, “There is a Yakā in the jungle in which is the firewood. The Yakā has now eaten all the people of this city; few people are now in it.”
The Prince asked, “How does that Yakā seize the men?”
The widow woman said, “When they go to the jungle and are cutting firewood, he comes saying ‘Hū,’ and eats them.”
Afterwards the Prince, taking his sword, went to the jungle, and chopped a piece of firewood. The Yakā came, saying “Hū.” Then the Prince chopped at the Yakā with that very sword, and the Yakā died there. After that, the Prince, taking a bundle of firewood, returned to the house of the widow woman.
The widow woman asked, “Son, did you meet with the Yakā?”
The Prince said, “I met with him; I killed the Yakā.”