That night, when he had eaten, the Kapurāla said, “We must place this our cage inside that [room].”
“You may do it,” they said, and they placed it in the house.
Then when the wife of the man who was inside the cage and the false husband were spreading mats [to lie upon], and making ready for sleeping, the Kapurāla who remained outside said, “Except that [cage], there is no room for two.” Thereupon the man who was inside the cage came out, and beat the false husband even on the cheeks with the cudgel that he had taken. So the man died.
After that, the man, as it was becoming light, went and threw the Deer’s elder sister into the river. Having returned, and gone to the village with the Deer, the man who went for Nikini cooked for the other man, and gave him to eat. Then the two divided the money, and he gave the man the gem which he had, as a present for him, and sent that man back to his village.
Afterwards this man, taking another wife, remained there. [According to another version, however, he became a Buddhist monk.]
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province.
The story is also related in a contracted form in the Western Province.
In a variant by a Tom-tom Beater of the North-western Province, a young Boar takes the place of the Deer, and the woman married first a King, and afterwards a Rākshasa who was sent for the Nikini. At the Boar’s suggestion he died by jumping into a fire made by the girl, and the Boar then followed his example, and was burnt up. The girl is represented as “smearing a great deal of gold on herself” before this, apparently becoming gilded.