The Princess said, “If so, stay.”
After that, the Princess marrying the Prince, when he was there for a considerable time the Prince said, “I must go to our city and come back.” Then the Princess said, “I also must come.”
The Prince having said, “Hā, it is good; let us go,” the two went to the Prince’s city. Near the city there is a well; near the well there is a tree. Having caused the Princess to stay in the tree, the Prince went into the city to bring a horse for the Princess to go to the city.
After he went there, a woman of the smiths’ caste (āciri gāeni) came to the well for water. Having come, when the smith woman looked in the direction of the well, the reflection of the Princess who was in the tree appears in the well. She saw the figure, the smith woman.
Having seen it, the woman thought it was the woman’s [own] figure, and having seen the beauty of it, thought, “Aḍē! I am such a good looking woman as this! Why came I for water?”
When she looked up the tree she saw that the Princess is [there], and the smith woman says, “Anē! Having descended, please bathe with a little water [that I will draw for you]. Why are you there?” The Princess remained there without descending.
The smith woman once more said, “Please descend.” Afterwards, the Princess having descended, and taken off her clothes, while she was bathing the smith woman said, “Please bend down for me to rub your back.” The Princess bent down. Then the smith woman raised her and threw her into the well.
The Princess was unable to come to the ground. The smith woman, putting on the clothes of the Princess, climbed up the tree.
Then the Prince having come there bringing a horse, the Prince stopped, and thinking that the smith woman was the Princess, told the smith woman to descend; and the Prince and the smith woman went to the city on the horse.
Then a blind man came near the well for water. The Princess, being in the well, said, “Having torn the cloth of the person who came for water, and knotted the pieces together, put it into the well.”