[1] Jambu, the Rose-apple, Jambosa vulgaris. [↑]
No. 159
The Leopard and the Princess
In a certain country there are seven Princes, it is said. Younger than all seven there is their younger sister. For the seven Princes seven Princesses have been brought; a Prince having been brought for the younger sister, is settled there.
While they are thus, the younger sister has pregnancy longings (doladuk). One day, while the younger sister and her elder brothers were going to their houses, having seen the whole seven Princesses eating Dam̆ba [fruits] the younger sister also stayed there to eat them, and asked at the hand of the eldest sister-in-law, “Sister-in-law, a Dam̆ba fruit for me also.”
Then the sister-in-law said, “There will not be Dam̆ba here to give.”
She asked at the hand of the next sister-in-law. That sister-in-law also replied in the same way. Thus, in that manner having asked at the hand of the whole seven, not even one person gave it.
Afterwards, the younger sister having cooked and eaten, went alone to pluck Dam̆ba, and having ascended the Dam̆ba tree, while she was eating Dam̆ba it became night.
A Leopard having come near the Dam̆ba tree [said], “[How] if you should throw down a Dam̆ba branch with your golden little hand?”