Thereafter, the King having beheaded the man who said it falsely, made ready to give the Princess to the giant of the ash-heap. The giant having given the Princess to the giant who stopped the water with his foot, and in the first manner having planted a Lime-tree and put a Blue-lotus flower into a small copper pot of water, and said, “If there be any harm to me the Lime-tree will die, the Blue-lotus flower will fade. At that time come seeking me,” the giant of the ash-heap began to go away alone.
Having gone to a city that had become abandoned, at the time when he is looking at the houses in a street, a Princess having been in an upper story says, “Our father having become insane, and having eaten all the city people, now this city is desolate. Why have you come?”
Thereupon this giant said, “I came because of [the want of] a means of subsistence.” Having halted there, and that day having eaten cooked rice from there, he asked at the hand of the Princess, “Are there menēri [seeds][6] and dried areka-nuts?” Thereupon the Princess having said, “There are,” sought and gave them.
The giant of the ash-heap put down the menēri from inside the open ground in front of the house up to the house. The dried areka-nuts he put above it. Having put them down, taking the sword also and half shutting the door he remained [there]. At that time the King having come, sprang towards the doorway [and slipped upon the loose seeds and nuts]. Thereupon he of the ash-heap chopped at him with the sword, and killed the King.[7] Having killed him, taking the Princess he began to go away. Having thus gone, and having built a house near a river, they remained there.
One day, when the Princess was bathing at the river, she uprooted a hair[8] of the Princess’s, and it fell into the water. The hair having gone along the river, and having caught on a fish (mālu kūriyekuṭa), the fish swallowed it. The fish fell into the net of the fisherman of the King of that country. Having cut open the fish, at the time when he looked [inside it] a hair had been made into a ball. When he unrolled the hair and looked at it, its length was seven fathoms seven hands.
The fisherman gave it to the King. Thereupon the King said, “To a person who should find and give me the woman who owns this hair, I will give a fourth share from my city.”
A widow woman said, “I can, if you will give me a ship.” Thereupon the King gave her a ship.
The widow woman having taken the ship, found the Princess. Having been there a few days, she asked at the hand of the Princess, “Has your husband confidence in you?”
The Princess said, “Yes, he has confidence in me.”
Thereupon the old woman said, “It is good. If he has confidence in you ask where his life is.”