Having gone into a great forest, he said, “Daughter, come here in order that I may look at your head.”[3] While he was looking and looking at it, the girl fell asleep. Then the man placed the girl against a tree, and tied her to it; and having cut out her two eyes, came home and placed one on the shelf and one in the salt pot. The dog that went with the man having come home, howled, rolling about in the open space in front of the house.
There was also a child. That little one having gone somewhere, on coming back bringing a mango, asked that Mahagē, “Loku-Ammā, give me a knife.” The woman said, “Have I got one here? It is on the shelf; get it.”
Then the child, going into the house, and putting his hand on the shelf, caught hold of the eye placed there by the man, and said, “This is indeed our elder sister’s eye. Loku-Ammā, give me a piece of salt.”
The woman said, “Have I got any here? Take it from the salt pot.”
When the child put his hand into the salt pot the other eye was there. He took it also. When he stepped down from the veranda of the house into the compound, the dog went in front, and the child followed after him.
Having gone on and on, the dog came to the place in the great forest where the girl was, and stopped there. When the child looked, his elder sister was tied to the tree. He saw that red ants were biting her from her eyes downward, and having quickly unfastened her he took her to a tank, and bathed her. Then taking both her eyes in his hand, he said, “If these are our elder sister’s eyes, may they be created afresh,” and threw them down. After that, they were created better than before.
Afterwards the girl said, “Younger brother, we cannot go again to that house. Let us go away somewhere.” So they went off. While they were going along the road, a King was coming on horseback, tossing and tossing up a golden Kaekiri fruit. The child, after looking at it, said, “Elder sister, ask for the golden Kaekiri.”
The girl replied, “Appā! Younger brother, he will kill both of us. Come on without speaking.”
Then the child another time said, “Elder sister, ask for it and give me it.”
The King having heard it, asked, “What, Bola, is that one saying?”