The Tom-tom Beater having cut the growing rice in the field and trampled it [with buffaloes], got the paddy. The Gamarāla obtained hardly anything (ṭikapiṭika). So not much time was occupied in eating it.
After that, a daughter of the Gamarāla’s was taken away by a Rākshasa. Then the Gamarāla having come near the Tom-tom Beater, and said, “Let us go on a search for my daughter,” both persons went together.
At that time the Gamarāla took a bag of money. The Tom-tom Beater, not showing it to the Gamarāla, took a bag of fragments of broken plates. The Gamarāla tied up a bag of cooked rice; the Tom-tom Beater tied up a bag of rice-dust porridge.
At the time when they were going, being hungry they stopped at the bottom of a tree and made ready to eat the cooked rice. Having made ready, the Tom-tom Beater, taking a small quantity of rice from the Gamarāla’s leaf [plate] of cooked rice, ate it.
Having eaten it, the Tom-tom Beater says, “Don’t you eat the cooked rice which I have polluted by eating; be good enough to eat my bag of cooked rice.” Having said it, he gave him the bag of rice-dust porridge. Then when the Gamarāla unfastened the bag there was only porridge.
Having said, “Well then, what [else] shall I do?” the Gamarāla ate the rice-dust porridge. The Tom-tom Beater ate the package of good cooked rice which the Gamarāla brought. Thereupon the Gamarāla said at the hand of the Tom-tom Beater, “I ate the rice-dust porridge; don’t tell anyone whatever,” he said. The Tom-tom Beater said, “It is good.”
At the time when they were going away, yet [another] Tom-tom Beater, taking a drum to sell, came up. So this Tom-tom Beater, thinking of taking the drum, spoke to the Gamarāla [about it]. Then the Gamarāla said, “If there is money in thy hand give it, and take it.”
The Tom-tom Beater, having shaken the package of plate fragments said, “There is money by me; I cannot unfasten it. If you have money be good enough to give it.” The Gamarāla said, “I will not.”[9]
Then the Tom-tom Beater said, “If so, I will say that you ate the rice-dust porridge.” Then the Gamarāla said, “Here is money,” and gave it. So the Tom-tom Beater got the drum.
Taking it, at the time when they were going along the path again, a man came taking a deer-hide rope. That, also, the Tom-tom Beater having thought of taking, in the very same way as at first he asked the Gamarāla for money. The Gamarāla said, “I will not give it.”