At p. 167 ff., two Princes who escaped their death sentence, which was due to their step-mother’s plotting, heard two birds say of two others that they who ate them would become a King and Minister. They shot and ate them. The whip and snake incident occurred, the latter being a dragon. The elder brother was selected as King by the royal elephant and hawk. A jōgī emptied the spring and made the dragon restore the Prince, who was captured by robbers, saved by the daughter of one, went with her on board a ship, was pushed overboard, and was saved by the girl. They landed at the city where the elder brother was reigning, and he was made Minister, and eventually King when the elder brother succeeded their father.
In Folk-Tales of Bengal (Day), p. 99, a royal elephant with a rich howdah on its back selected a Prince as King, and took him to the city.
[2] Moringa pterygosperma. [↑]
[3] A thing only done by a man’s wife. [↑]
Wangi tunak aeti, kembi dolahak aeti,
Apaṭa waeduna duka mē asāpan koṭa kotali.