In the evening, the Prince, having eaten food, went onto the platform. Near midnight, while he was there the light fell there. When the Prince looked, the Nāga King of the world of the Nāgas, having come there, had ejected from his mouth the Cobra Stone, and having gone far away was eating food [as a cobra].
Then this Prince put the cow-dung winnowing basket on the stone, whereupon the Nāga King came crying out to the water-pot, taking it for the person [who had done it]. The Prince then chopped at him with his sword, and the Nāga King died. After that, taking the Cobra Stone, the Prince washed it with water from the pot, and put it away in the waist pocket of his cloth.
While he was there it became light. Then the King came to see if he had stopped the light. When he looked he saw that the cobra was lying in a heap. The King asked at the hand of the Prince, “Did you stop the light?” The Prince said, “Look there! The very one that made the light has been killed there.” Afterwards the King gave the Prince an elephant’s load of goods, and a district of that kingdom.
Afterwards, the Prince having given to the widow woman all the things that had been given to him, went along the path on which the Nāga King had come, to the world of the Nāgas. When he got there, all the three Princesses of the Nāga King whom he had killed were there, sitting in one spot.
The Princesses said to this Prince, “What have you come for? Should our father the King return now he will eat you.”
The Prince saying, “Your father the King cannot come. I have come here after killing your father the King,” showed them the Cobra Stone.
Then the Princesses asked, “What have you come here for?”
The Prince said, “I have come on account of a sooth-saying, in order to get it explained.”
The Princesses asked, “What is the sooth?”
The Prince said, “At the time when our father the King was sleeping, a Golden Tree having sprung up, and a Silver Flower having blossomed on it, a Silver Cock which was sitting upon the flower crowed.”