This one said, “Cut on a sheet of tin in Tamil and Sinhalese, ‘I killed twenty,’ and give me it.”
Having said, “It is good,” he cut it and gave it.
After he had cut and given it, this one took it, and preparing a hanging board, and hanging the sheet of tin on it, put the cord on his neck, and walked along the roads. Men who saw this stepped on one side through fear, and went away.
Certain Tamils having seen this at a city, said to Sīgiris Siññō, “In our country the King has a giant. Should any one fight with him and win, the King said he will give him a present of five hundred masuran, and the post of Prime Minister. This being so, can you go there with us [and fight him],” they asked.
Then Sīgiris Siññō, thinking, “Let me go even should I be struck by lightning,” said, “I am able to fight with the giant,” and went to that city with the Tamils.
Having arrived there, these Tamils handed him over to the King under whom that giant had a post. The King asked this one, “I have a giant. Canst thou fight with the giant and win?”
Sīgiris Siññō said instantly, “A son who has killed twenty giants better than that one am I.”
So the King said to his giant, “Now then, do what fighting thou knowest, and conquer that one.”
Then the giant said to Sīgiris Siññō, “To-day you must come and swim [against me] in the great sea for eight days. We require from the King ten rupees in order to get things to eat while we are swimming.” Having said this and got them, the two giants went to the shops, and got things for the ten rupees.
Then Sīgiris the Giant said to that giant, “What are these few things! For one meal I want six quarts of rice and I want three bottles of arrack. I can swim for eight or ten months.”