At that time the Dēvatāwā showed him the path [leading] near the Dēvatāwā who sleeps two months. Having gone there also, he awoke him. Having awakened, he asked the Prince thus, “Regarding what matter did you awake me?” he asked. There, also, the Prince said he came about the want of a Sūriya-kāntā flower.
Thereupon the Dēvatāwā showed him the path to the house of the Dēvatāwā who sleeps one month.[2] Having gone there also, when he was displaying games that Dēvatāwā also awoke. At that time he too asked regarding what want [he had come]. Thereupon he told him in the very manner he formerly said.
After that, the Dēvatāwā said thus, “Look there. When you have gone along that path there will be a pool in which the Virgin Women (Kanniyā-Striyō[3]) bathe. Having gone there and been hidden, as soon as the Virgin Women have descended into the pool to bathe take even those persons’ wearing apparel. There will be a dēwālaya (temple) just there; having gone into the dēwālē shut the door yourself. Then the Virgin Women having come and told you to open the door, will make games, a disturbance, and the like. Do you, without opening the door through their saying those things, say thus: ‘Except that should you bring and give me a Sūri-kāntā flower I will open the door and give you these ornaments, I will not otherwise give them.’ Say [this].” While saying it he showed the Prince the path.
The Prince having gone in that very manner, and got hid, while he was there, in the very way the Dēvatāwā said, the Virgin Women came and descended into the pool to bathe.
Thereupon this Prince, taking the wearing apparel of the Virgin Women, went into the dēwālaya which was near there, and shut the door himself. At that time the Virgin Women having come played games [outside]. This Prince, not having looked in their direction even, in the very manner the Dēvatāwā told him before asked for a Sūriya-kāntā flower.
The Virgin Women said, “We will give a Sūri-kāntā flower; [be pleased] to give us our clothes.”
Thereupon the Prince while giving only [some] clothes for them to put on until the time when they give the Sūriya-kāntā flower, kept back the other wearing apparel. After that, the Virgin Women, having given oaths, begged for and got the other wearing apparel, too. [After] begging for them, they brought and gave him a Sūriya-kāntā flower.
After they gave it, the Prince came near the Dēvatāwā who told him the path. As soon as he came the Dēvatāwā asked, “What else do you want?”
“You must give me a power to beat men, even millions in number,” he said.
Thereupon the Dēvatāwā having given him a cudgel, said, “However many [there may be], even to [the extent of] an army, place this cudgel in the road, and tell it [after] beating them to come back. [After] beating however many persons [there may be] it will come.”