When a little time had gone again, she awoke him: “The sound of the five kinds of tom-toms,[5] and the decorated tusk elephant are coming. Be pleased to arise quickly.”

Just as this one was awaking, the tusk elephant having come, kneeled down.

Thereafter, having caused this one to bathe in scented sandal-wood water, having put on him the royal ornaments, and having put in that very manner the ornaments on his wife also, they placed both of them on the back of the tusk elephant.

As they were going, he caused the smith to be brought, and impaled him. Having caused the person who did not give the yoke of buffaloes to be brought, he heated cow-dung, and having held both his lips to both sides, he poured it down his throat.

As he was going near the house of the Gamarāla, the King said, for the Gamarāla’s daughters to hear:—

Kaḷundāwa pinma kalē. Kaḷu undaē pin no-kalē. Kaḷundāwa performed very meritorious acts. The agreeable ones performed not meritorious acts.

North-western Province.

[1] Such a remark is a form of refusal, as in the Arabian Nights (Lady Burton’s ed., vol. i, p. 174), in which a man, asking a friend for assistance, was answered, “Bismillah! I will do all that thou requirest, but come to-morrow.” The other replied in this verse:

“When he who is asked a favour saith ‘To-morrow,’