The man said, “To-day, indeed, I met with a plate.” [He gave the Heṭṭiyā an account of its good properties.]
Thereupon, the Heṭṭiyā, having made the man drink arrack (spirit distilled from palm-juice), and made him drunk, and allowed him to sleep on the bed, took the plate. Taking it, he put another plate into the man’s bread box.
Then the man having become conscious, and gone home, told the man’s wife, “Don’t cook; we shall receive food.” Having well polished the plate, and spread a white cloth, placing it upon the table he waited.
Having ascertained that cooked rice did not descend, the man’s wife came, and taking the plate threw it away, and having cooked, ate.
On the following day, also, the man having walked without selling bread, came near that tree, and said in the former way, “I will eat. I will eat.”[1]
Thereupon, the Yakā[2] on that day gave him a ring, and said, “Having sold the ring, when you are going ten fathoms away the ring will come and place itself again in your hand.”
On that day, also, the Heṭṭiyā asked [what he had met with]. The man, just as in the former manner, said, “I obtained a ring,” [and told him its property]. So the Heṭṭiyā on that day, also, made the man drunk, and taking the ring and having caused another ring to be made, put it on the man’s hand.
The man having become conscious, and gone away taking the ring, sold it. Having sold it, he went ten fathoms, and looked. That, also, did not come.
Then the man on the following day also came without having sold the bread, and having come near that tree, said on that day, also, just as in the former manner.
At that time the Dēvatāwā gave him a cow which drops gold. “Having taken away this cow, take good care of it, and tie it up and keep it,” he said.