Note 4 — The Story of the Elder Sister and Younger Brother

Then the Queen says, “After our mother was summoned and came to our father, after I and a younger brother were born our mother died. Then they brought a step-mother. Because that mother disregards4 younger brother and me, younger brother and I left the country, and having entered a forest jungle, when we were coming the flowers of a Kīna tree had blossomed and fallen. Taking the faded flowers I smelt them. Thereupon younger brother said, ‘Don’t smell the faded flowers; I will pluck and give [you] flowers.’ Having said [this] and gone up the tree, at the time when [after] plucking the flowers he was descending, younger brother disappeared. Owing to grief at that I remained unable to speak.”