Then the Princesses said, “We indeed are human beings, not Yakās,” [and they told him how they had escaped from the house of the Rākshasa and had come there].
On hearing this the King said, “Can you go with me?”
The Princesses having said, “We can,” went with the King to his palace, and became his Queens.[1]
On the night of the following day, a daughter of the Rākshasa, having heard how the King had taken away the Princesses, came there, and remained lying on the sandbank.
On the next day, also, the King having come that way asked, “Are you a Yakā or a human being?”
The Rākshasa’s daughter said, “Is it a Yakā or a human being who asks?”
The King replied, “It is indeed a human being who asks, not a Yakā.”
The Rākshasa’s daughter said, “I also am indeed a human being, not a Yakā.”
Then the King said, “If so, can you go with me?”
The Rākshasī having said, “I can,” went with the King to the palace, [and also became his wife.]