[2] Maha gē is “large house”; mahagē is an old or well-connected woman, such as the wife of a Gamarāla. [↑]
[3] A variant of the last incident is given in No. 57, vol. i. [↑]
No. 92
The King who became a Thief
In a certain country a Prince went to ask about a marriage, it is said. As he was going, while on the road he met with a Princess. Having met with her, the two persons spoke angrily. Having spoken thus, the Prince said to the Princess, “Some day or other, having called Her [in marriage], I will punish Her much.”[1]
Then the Princess said, “Having borne a Prince to you, Sir, and having employed the Prince [for it], I will tie you to your horse’s leg, and cause [them] to strike you fifty blows.”
Afterwards, the Prince, having come back, built brick walls like a prison, and placed a drain in it, and caused a house to be prepared for putting the Princess into when he brought her.
Having prepared it, and having come calling the Princess [in marriage], he put her in the house; and he puts cooked rice for the Princess at the corner of the drain. The Princess having eaten it, is [there] without even going outside.
There were two field rats (waeli mīyō) which the Princess had reared before. The two came to the place where this Princess is. Having come, they dug a tunnel below the brick wall; having dug it, the Queen got out by the corner of the tunnel, and came away.