[On the appointed day] having gone into the tunnel at the King’s midula (the open space in front of the palace), at the time when he is coming to this tunnel, the King, having blocked up the King’s tunnel and having employed elephants and trampled [the earth down], and having come, says to the three Princesses, “Princesses, go ye to the royal palace.”
At that time these three say, “When our Prince has gone three months, and three pōyas (at the quarters of the moon), and three days, and three half days, should he not return we will come. You, Sir, be good enough to go.” Thereupon the King went back to the palace.
[While he was there, the Prince, who had escaped by the secret tunnel, proceeded to the palace to see him.] Having [stated that he had] gone to the Nāga world and come back, the Prince says to the King, “O King, Your Majesty’s father, the [late] King, has arrived at old age; he says to you that you also are to go.”
At that time, [as he believed this], having removed the stones and earth [that he had placed] in the tunnel down which the Prince went, the King also began to go. Having handed over the sovereignty to the Crown and the Sword [of State], and gone near the tunnel, and summoned everybody (sēroṭōma), he says, “Having handed over the sovereignty to the Crown and the Sword, I am going. When I have gone for the space (taena) of three months and three pōyas, I shall come back. Until the time when I come be careful.”
At the very time when he is descending into the tunnel, they brought elephants, and having put stones and earth in it, when they trampled them down the King died.
Three pōyas and three days and three months went by. He came not ever.
As the sovereignty was going to be lost, loading on the tusk elephant’s back the robes and the Crown and the Sword, and having made notification by tom-toms, at the time when it is walking in the street the Mī-flower Princess, and Nā-flower Princess, and Blue-lotus-flower Princess say to the Prince, “To-day you, Sir, will obtain the sovereignty. Do not go anywhere.”
Thereupon the Prince says, “How do you know?”
These three say, “Now, now, you will obtain it.”
The tusk elephant having come, when it was making obeisance by kneeling he mounted on the tusk elephant, and putting on the Crown and taking the Sword in his hand, he went to the palace.