While remaining [there] in this manner, one day the Prince said, “Mother, I am hungry,” and cried. When he was crying, the stone which his mother had brought that day from the river in order to stop the Prince’s [crying], had been thrown away into the open ground in front of the house (midula).
This woman, having shown him the stone, said falsely, “Look there. Take that stone which is there, and having given it at the bazaar, and eaten rice cakes, come back.”
Then the Prince, having gone running, taking that stone, begged throughout the whole of the bazaar, “Anē! Take this stone and give me rice cakes.”
The men said to that Prince, “Who gives rice cakes for quartz stones, Bola?” and scolded him at each place to which he went.
After that, the Prince, having asked at every place without [obtaining any cakes], went to the King’s palace also, at the time when the King was walking at the Audience Hall, and said, “Anē! Take this stone, and give me rice cakes; I am hungry.”
Thereupon the King, having heard the sweet speech of this young Prince, becoming pleased, said, “Where, Bola, is the stone? Bring it here for me to look at it.”
The Prince took the stone, and gave it into the King’s hand. The King taking the stone in his hand, when he looked at it, it was a gem-stone. Then the King asked, “Bola, whence [came] this stone to thee?”
“This stone was in the open ground at the front of the house. Mother said to me, ‘Take it, and having eaten rice cakes, come back.’ ”
Then the King said, “I will give thee rice cakes. Go and tell thy mother to come.”
The Prince having gone running home, said, “Mother, a man said that you are to come, [so that he may] give rice cakes to me. The man, taking the stone, too, put it away.”