The Prince said, “I am a royal Prince.”
Then this Prince became mentally inclined towards the very beautiful Yaksanī; the Yaksanī also became mentally inclined towards the Prince.
The Yaksanī asked the Prince, “Where are you going, Sir?”
The Prince said, “I came to seek a gem-stone.”
Then the Yaksanī said, “We indeed remain in charge of this gem river. Should the Dēvatāwā Unnaehae come he will kill you. It is I indeed they call the Gem Goddess. I can give gems. [After] marrying me and placing me on the horse, if you should not go twelve yōjanas[3] before half a paeya (of twenty-four minutes) has gone, the Gem Dēvatā Unnaehae[4] will come and behead both of us, and burn us.”
The Prince being pleased at it (that is, her proposal), said, “It is good”, and placing the Princess on the back of the horse, asked, “Where are the gems?”
The Dēvatā-daughter said, “I will give them; I have them.”
Then he drove away the horse twelve yōjanas before half a paeya [had passed]. Having driven it, when he went to the city the King asked the Prince, “Have you brought the gems?”
That Yaksanī had previously[5] said at the hand of the Prince that when the King asks, “Have you brought the gems?” he is to say, “I have brought [them].” Because of it, the Prince said, “I have brought the gems.”
Then the King said, “Where? Let me look at them.”