Then the two persons made a cage called, “The Cage of the God Sivalinga,” and tied white cloth in it [as a lining], and trimmed a wooden cudgel and placed it inside. The man [who had gone for Nikini] was also placed inside the cage with a cloth on his shoulders, and closed in with similar cloths. Men having been fetched [and engaged to carry it]—saying that he was bringing the God Sivalinga—took it on their shoulders, and going off with it they went to a Heṭṭirāla’s shop.
Then that man said [to the person inside the cage], “After I have placed it inside the shop, take the cash-box which is in it, and put it inside the cage.”
The Heṭṭirāla asked, “What is that cage?”
The man said, “Our deity, the God Sivalinga.”
The Heṭṭirāla asked, “What is it, then, that is necessary for offering to that deity?”
The man said, “The cooked rice from two quarts of raw rice, and sweet plantains are wanted.”
So the Heṭṭirāla brought and gave him the cooked rice from two quarts of raw rice, and ripe sweet plantains. After that, the man gave to the man in the cage the cooked rice from a quart of the raw rice, and half the plantains. The other man ate the rice from the other quart, and the remaining plantains.
In the evening the man gave the cage into the hands of the Heṭṭiyā, and told him to place it in the house. So the Heṭṭiyā put the cage in the house. [During the night the man inside it stole the cash-box.] When it got near midnight the man asked for the cage, saying, “Heṭṭi-elder-brother, give me my cage so that I may go.” The Heṭṭirāla gave it.
As the man, taking the cage, was going along he met with a city. Then that man said [to the man in the cage], “After I have taken this cage and placed it in the palace, you get the things in it and put them inside the cage.” Having said this they went to the palace. The King asked, “What is that?”
The man said, “Our deity, the God Sivalinga. We are able to say sooth and the like.”