HIKAYAT PUTRA JAYA PATI. 59 
From Narada the prince learns all the magical arts of war, 
how to cause rain of fire and stone and weapons to descend. He 
turns a spike of grass (Jalang) into a caparisoned steed and mount- 
ing practices the arts of war with the other pupils, turning the 
steed back into grass when night falls. One day Narada trans- 
forms himself into a large red-eyed demon. All his pupils flee 
except Putra Jaya Pati who engages him with arrows which turn 
into fire, rocks, steel, dragons. The demon turns into a roc 
(géroda) ; the prince into a harpy (walimana). At last Narada 
reveals himself and the fight ceases. One day thinking of his 
parents, Putra Jaya Pati weeps and asks leave of his teacher to go 
home. Narada gives him a magic casket out of which can be in- 
voked four warrior genies with armies. He calls forth the four 
warriors 2 p= CS ge Chau Sang Sétiara, — Vglate Ca 
to swear fealty to the hero. The hero departs, and traverses plain 
and forest till he reaches Lake Samandara, where fishes greet him. 
He eats shell-fish and casts the shells into the water whereupon the 
shell-fish come to life and laugh. He eats pomegranates from a 
tree hard by and casts the husks into the lake, whereupon at once 
they break into flower and fruit that ripens. A voice warns him. 
He looks and sees a skull. ‘The skull says it was once a man, 
Bujang Juara, the servant of the hero’s sire, who was killed by a 
demon as he slept under, a tree at that spot. The hero pretends 
to sleep and worsting the demon takes his sword. He comes to a 
plain with a bright hght in the centre and asks an old man Malik 
Indra whom he meets, what it is. It is the bower of Princess 
Chindra Nur Lela, sister of Indra Samandara Lela, and daughter 
of Raja Gangga Wijaya. The princess is betrothed to a mighty 
fairy prince, Raja Indra Warna. against her own and her parents’ 
will. Malik Indra, guardian of the princess’ garden, invites the 
hero to his house and takes him to bathe where the princess bathes. 
He spies on the princess through the wall as she comes to the 
garden. The princess sends a maid to invite the wife of Malik 
Indra to accompany her to the garden called Kesoma Angjoka. 
The maid faints at the sight of the hero’s beauty. Another maid 
fetches the old lady who tells who her adopted son really is. The 
princess falls in love with her description. The old lady goes home. 
The princess sends her maid Dang Sangkurana (O!o C2 >) 
to beg her to detain her adopted son, and invite him to be a spec- 
tator of games on the morrow so that she may get a elimpse of him. 
The hero tells the old lady that if the princess is anxious for a 
love affair he must see her that night and bids her take a message 
to the princess :— 
Basahan sambil bérdiri, 
Kain pualam di-dalam astana. 
_ Surohan dari-pada tuan putérr 
Sékarang malam beta ka-sana. 
BR. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
