The King asked, “What do you require for him?”
The man said, “Rice cooked from raw rice, and sweet plantains are necessary.”
So the King gave him cooked rice and sweet plantains. The man having given The King having said “Hā,” he brought it, and placed it inside the palace. As it was becoming light the man said, “Now then, I want the cage in order to worship the deity.” So the King gave him the cage. Afterwards, as the man was taking the cage near a tank it became light. He remained there until it was night, and then went to the house of the man who went to seek Nikini, and found that the woman had called in another man who was there. That man asked, “What is that?” The man said, “This is our deity, the God Sivalinga. We are able to tell sooth.” The man said, “Hā. It is good. There is a sooth that we, too, require to ask about.” Then the [pretended] Kapurāla, whom the God Sivalinga was [supposed to be] goading[3] to it, became possessed. When he was saying sooth, the wife of the man who went to seek Nikini and the false husband who had joined her, came with their arms interlaced, and saying to the deity that a long time had elapsed since her husband had gone in search of Nikini, they asked, “Has anything happened to him now?” At that time the God Sivalinga said through the person possessed by Sivalinga, “The man has now become blind. Besides that, he will not be permitted to return to his village. He will die while in that state.” Then because he said this in the manner that was in the mind of the woman, she took the food off the fire, and together with the false husband brought the deity to her house, and gave the rice cooked from two quarts of raw rice, and sweet plantains, in order that the Kapurāla might present an offering.