After a long time had gone by, all those seven Princesses were about to have children. One night, when the Princesses were asleep, the Rākshasī plucked out the eyes of the seven Princesses by magic, without awaking them, and having done so hid all the eyes. Then when the seven Princesses, having arisen, tried to go about, they were unable to go; they found that they could not see, so they lay down again.
Afterwards the King came to awake them. “Why are you sleeping yet?” he said.
The seven Princesses replied, “We are unable to get up; we have no eyes.”
The King asked, “How have your eyes become displaced?”
The seven Princesses said, “What has happened we do not know; they have been plucked out while we were asleep.”
Afterwards the King having said, “If so, go where you like,” drove them away. The King allowed only the Rākshasī to stay.
The seven Princesses, having gone on and on, and having fallen down at a pool, gave birth to seven Princes there. Now, there was no food for the seven, so having cut up the Prince of the eldest Princess, and divided the body into seven parts, they ate for a day. On the next day, having cut up the next Princess’s Prince and divided the body, they ate it. Thus, in that manner they ate the six Princes of the six persons.
On the next day they settled to cut up the Prince of the youngest Princess. Then the youngest Princess, on each of the days having put away her portions of flesh, said, “You shall not cut up my Prince. Look, here is your flesh,” she said, and gave them the six portions of flesh. The six persons ate them. [The narrator did not state how they subsisted after that.]
While this youngest Princess was rearing that Prince there, after the Prince went to the chena jungle one day, he met with a Vaeddā. The Vaeddā said, “Let us go together to the King’s city.”[2] The Prince said “Hā,” and went with him. There the King saw him, and being pleased with him gave him food and the like. The Prince having eaten, after he had come again to the pool the Prince’s mother asked, “Where did you go?”