Afterwards, when the Prince had gone to the forge to get a sword made, the Princess said to the widow woman, “Mother, give me my robes to look at.”
The widow woman said, “Anē! Daughter, I don’t know where they are.”
The Princess said, “Why are you telling me lies? Give them to me.”
On account of that, the widow woman opened the boxes, and gave the robes to the Princess. The Princess took the robes, and saying, “Should he see me again it will be as [wonderful as] if he should see the young of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā, or white where charcoal has been rubbed,” went away to the city of the Princess.
When the Prince came after getting the sword made, he asked at the hand of the widow woman, “Where is the Princess?”
The woman said, “On her asking for her robes I gave them. Taking them, she said, ‘Should he see me again it will be as [wonderful as] if he should see the young of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā, or white where charcoal has been rubbed’ [and then she went away].”
The Prince on that account rubbed and rubbed charcoal, and when he looked there was a little white [colour]. Having seen it, he told the widow woman to cook cakes. When they were cooked he took some and ate; and tying up a cloth package of them, and taking it, and the sword, he went off.
As he was passing through the middle of a forest, he saw a cobra beginning to climb a tree in which were the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā, and he cut it in two with the sword. While he was climbing the tree after killing it, the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā came to eat him. Then he said to the little ones, “O unrighteous ones! Why are ye coming to eat me? Look ye on the ground.”
When the Aet-Kanda little ones had looked on the ground, and seen the cobra that he had cut in two, they said, “[As you have saved us from the cobra] we will render you any possible assistance.”
Then the Prince after going to the nest where they were, unfastened the package of cakes, and having given to them also, ate. After eating, the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā said, “Mother will indeed eat you to-day when she has come.”