They’ll me myself to kill devise;
In bed the gold-hued nephew cries;
As a lady, gold-hued sister rise,”[5]
the cobra returned [in her woman’s form], and having suckled and bathed the infant, and sent it to sleep, again [becoming a snake] goes back to the ant-hill.
Then the King having returned, asked the younger brother, “Where, Bola, is thy elder sister?”
The child said, “Our father and Loku-Ammā having cooked a sort of cakes came and gave us them, and Loku-Ammā told elder sister to eat. Afterwards, as she did not eat, Loku-Ammā, taking some, rubbed them on elder sister’s mouth. At that very moment elder sister became a female cobra, and dropped down into an ant-hill.”
Then the King asked, “Did she not return again, after she had dropped down into the ant-hill?”
The child replied, “While I was calling her she came back once.”
The King said, “Call her again in that very way.”
So the boy said to the golden Kaekiri,