What does the Princess do? Having taken gem-stones to the extent of many millions (in value), she caused to be sewn a diadem-wreath (oṭunu mālāwak), and a dress. Having sewn them, at early dawn (rāe pāndara) of the day following the week, having dressed this Prince, she said, “As the light is falling, having waited behind the King’s palace be good enough to come as though returning,” and sent him [there].
Thereupon, the Prince in that manner at the time when the King arises in the morning, presented himself for the King’s cognizance (indiriyaṭa). Then the King,—after becoming afraid concerning the return of the Prince whom he had put in the tunnel in which he had placed stones, and having employed tusk elephants had trampled them down,—asked, “Prince, whence camest thou?”
Thereupon the Prince said, “O Lord, Your Majesty, your father the King and mother the Queen, also, are staying in happiness in the God-world. I went there. Having said my dress was bad (nākayi) they gave me, for wearing, a dress which, those persons having worn it, had become old,” he said.
When the King looked in the direction of his dress [he thought that] except that in the God-world [there might be] such a dress, it is of the kind which is not in this world. Because of it, it seemed to the King to be true.
The Prince said, “The party said that you also, Sir, are to go. They tried not to permit me, also, to come back. Having said, ‘I will come back,’ for the purpose of what I am saying to you I returned.
“When I went in the tunnel and looked about yet [another] path [leading] there had been cleared. Having gone on that path, when I looked the God-world was quite near.”
After that, the King, having collected the citizens, began to remove the earth at that tunnel which he cut to kill the Prince.
Having heard of it, that Prince in order that the tunnel which the rats had cut should be closed, told the rats, and again made them push back the earth.
Having pushed it back, while he is staying [there], on the following day the King alone went, and having said, “[After] looking [at the God-world] I shall return,” went off.
When he is descending into the hole to go, what does this Prince do? Having thrown down those stones that had been taken out, and blocked up the tunnel so as not to allow the King to return, the King died in the tunnel.