Well then, the Turtle King, having come with the ten million lakhs of turtles, [after] setting guards round the city of the Four-faced King, says to the Four-faced King, “Will you fight with us, or take the marriage that was first spoken of?”
After that, the Four-faced King began to fight with the Turtle King. Having fought for seven days, the Four-faced King having been defeated, and the city people also being killed, the Turtle King got the sovereignty of the city. Having spared only the son of the Four-faced King, Prince Kimbiya, to that Prince he gave Gal-Ibbī, the daughter of the Turtle King. Beginning from that time, the Turtle King exercised the sovereignty over both cities.
Having summoned Gal-Ibbī [in marriage] seven Princes were begotten by Prince Kimbiya. The seven persons after they became big and great ascertaining that they were born from the womb of the tortoise, the mother of each of them, through shame ripping open (lit., splitting) each other, the whole seven died.
[1] Ibbā is a fresh-water turtle; Ibbāwa would be Turtle City. [↑]
No. 167
The Story of the Cobra and the Prince
In a country, during the time when a Prince is causing cattle to graze, the cattle having borne [calves] he goes to take milk in the morning every day, it is said.