Afterwards the Barbet having said “Hā” and come with the Parrot, the Barbet dug out a house in the statue of the size that the Parrot can be in it. At the time when the Parrot crept into it, having blocked it up from the outer side so that they were unable to know the place where it was dug, the Barbet went away.
After that, when the Parrot was there a considerable time, that woman every day in the morning and evening having come near the statue, and said stanzas, and made flower offerings, goes away. The Parrot every day remains listening.
One day the woman having come and said stanzas, when she was making the flower offerings the Parrot being inside the statue said, “Now then, indeed! You are near going to the God-world. Still you have been unable to do one [really] meritorious act. Just as you are doing that meritorious act they will take you to the God-world while you are alive.”
Then the woman thought, “After the speaking of the statue, I am indeed near going to the God-world.” Thinking it, she asked, “What is that meritorious act?”
Then the Parrot said, “Having taken only this statue of Buddha half a mile (haetaekma) away and placed it there, and put all the other things in this house, and locked the house up, and sat outside, and set fire to this house, that indeed is the meritorious act.”
After that, the woman having taken the statue of Buddha and placed it half a mile away, and come back, and put all the other things into the house, and shut the door of the house, and locked it, the woman, sitting outside, set fire to the house. While the house is burning the woman is looking on, having said, “To take me to the God-world they will come at this very instant, they will come at this very instant.”
Then the Parrot, having been inside the statue of Buddha, came out, and having come flying says to this woman, “Haven’t you gone yet to the God-world? There! Look! It is indeed in the God-world that that fire is blazing. Thou atest my mouth? For thy eating the mouth of the Parrot which explained the law-suit, this is what the Parrot did. There!”
Having said [this] the Parrot flew away and went to the flock of Parrots.
North-western Province.