He did in the manner his wife said. Having done the work, and gone to the city, he saw the King, and remained there.
Then the King says, “The well has been [partly] filled up. Because of it, let us go to draw out the small quantity of earth.” Having said this, that man and yet more people went.
Having gone there, and put Well then, the King, having filled the well, and said, “This one will be killed,” with pleasure came to the city. This above-mentioned man having thought, “This King I must kill,” made a stratagem. What was that stratagem, indeed? Cooking a box of cakes, and having gone to the city and given them to the King, he says, “Your Majesty (Devayan wahansē), having remained there at the time when you were putting me into the well, when you were closing it with earth I went to that [other] world. Having been there, I brought a box as a present (penum peṭṭiyak) for Your Majesty.” Thereupon the King says, “We also must go to that world. Because of it, put me down a well,” he said. Then having put the King into the well they closed it with earth. In not many days, perceiving that the King was lost, and ascertaining that there was no one for the sovereignty, they decorated the tusk elephant, and went seeking a person for the sovereignty. The tusk elephant went and kneeled to the man whom they put in the well. Thereupon, they having come [to the palace] with that man and with those three Queens, he exercised the sovereignty. Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province. In the tale numbered 243, in vol. iii, a Prince was induced to go for a lotus flower which grew in a pool guarded by a great crocodile.