Note 3 — The Nā, Mī, and Blue-Lotus Flowers’ Princesses
H. (Henry) Parker translation
At the time when these four were going in the midst of the jungle, there was a Banyan-tree; the four persons sat down in the shade under the Banyan-tree. The youngest Prince having collected a heap of sand and having been [hidden]3 in it, both the elder Princes and the executioner, these three persons, [not seeing him], set out to come away. Having come a considerable distance [the executioner], killing a lizard (kaṭussā) and smearing the blood on the sword, came and told the King, “I beheaded him.” The King took it for the fact.