48 HIKAYAT INDRAPUTRA. 
Now Raja Dewa Lela Mengerna got a deer while hunting and. 
sent it to his betrothed. The messenger reported that the bower 
had been forced and there was a youth with the princess. Raja 
Dewa Lela Mengerna sets out to fight. Indraputra by means of 
the magic stone calls up rival forces and engages in single combat 
with the angry prince, calling rain to dout his rival’s fire and so on. 
Nabat Rum Shah comes to his help. Raja Beatadzir (»>= ) 
Shah, father of the princess Gemala Suri, hearing she has enter- 
tained a mortal, is angered ‘and prepares his armies, but the de- 
mon of the lake pacifies him. He settles the strife, and weds his 
daughter to her betrothed. Indraputra stays with the newly 
married pair. One day while they are hunting Dewa Lela Men- 
gerna leaves Indraputra for a while and the hero falls asleep under 
a tree, where Tamar Boga flies off with him to cast him into the 
sea. Indraputra slays Tamar Boga and falling into a vast plain 
comes to a stream sweet as honey whose shell-fish (karang) accost 
him by name, 
He eats the fish throwing back the shells which become alive: 
again. A white lotus floats up and accosts him. He puts it in 
his turban, where it turns to rose-water and drips on his body. A 
red lotus floats up and then a blue; he wears both and they turn 
to scent. Fish and crabs greet him; he eats them and throws. 
bones and shells into the water where they come to life. Flowers 
greet him; he plucks them and they turn to posies (gubah; malav). 
He comes to mountains of iron, tin, brass, silver, gold and gems | 
respectively, on all of which birds welcome him. He comes to a 
mountain of fire and in despair uses his talisman to summon Dewa. 
Lak Pri, whom he asks to take him back to Gemala Ratna Suri. 
It is a long journey, “ seven days’ flight for a bird,’ and if he asks 
for water he will fall into the lake called Sea of Love (Bahar w’l- 
“Ashek), whose sands are of gold and banks of camphor, and mud 
of musk, and stones of jewels. 
Of course he asks for water and descends at the lake. On its 
waters are beflagged boats (pelang, lanchang) of gold and silver, 
and royal genies and fairies race them. By the aid of his talis- 
man Indraputra creates a storm and sinks the boats, drowning 
many of the fairies; then to the amazement of the survivors he 
stills the storm and restores the boats and the drowned fairies.. 
He comes to another lake Baharw’l-Waji (<>! lee) by which 
is an island Bahrum Dewa. 
On that island is a girl chased by two men; she turns herself 
into a flower and they become pigs and try to eat the flower; she 
changes into a gem and the men into eagles which strive to seize 
the gem. <A voice calls Indraputra. The gem falls into the lake 
and becomes a blue lotus; the birds change into dragons. All 
vanish. Four maids stand by the edge of the lake. They tell In- 
draputra that the princess was Seganda Chahaya Iram daughter of 
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