Note 8 — The Story of the Four Giants1

One day, when the Princess was bathing at the river, she uprooted a hair8 of the Princess’s, and it fell into the water. The hair having gone along the river, and having caught on a fish (mālu kūriyekuṭa), the fish swallowed it. The fish fell into the net of the fisherman of the King of that country. Having cut open the fish, at the time when he looked [inside it] a hair had been made into a ball. When he unrolled the hair and looked at it, its length was seven fathoms seven hands.