60 HIKAYAT INDRA BANGSAWAN. 
meet. Indra ‘Bangsawan saves the day, charging “like a seorpion 
into fire.’ Then he vanishes. The next day he saves the fight 
again, and again vanishes. No one knows who he may be. Si- 
Kembar is missing from the palace. They guess he is the hero. 
Raja Kabir is hard pressed while Si- Kembar stays five days at 
the friendly demon’s house. At last Raja Jabir alone is left in 
the field. Finally Indra Bangsawan comes, escorts him into the 
fort and alone faces the nine suitors whose men have all fled. They 
recognize him as the prince who sold the goat’s milk. He reveals. 
his name. They beg for pardon and that he may not reveal the» 
shame of their branding. 
Indra Bangsawan visits the friendly demon, dons his magic 
raiment and returns to the princess as Si-embar. Raja Kabir 
asks why their marriage is not consummated. ‘The princess says. 
Si-Kembar is unwilling. The kathi sentences both to be imprison- 
ed in a cage in the palace. In the night Si-Kembar (the jungle 
boy whose race never bathes!) feels hot and uses the princess’ 
bathing water, slipping out of his magic raiment. ‘The princess. 
marvels and asking to be released tells her father. Her father bids 
her pretend to sleep and seize Si-Kembar’s magic raiment. The 
device succeeds. She recognizes in Si-Kembar the prince who 
slew the monster (buraksa). He is taken to Raja Kabir but 
pleads for three days’ grace to visit the friendly demon. He calls 
his magic steed aihien comes miraculously. The princely demon 
e1ves him a magic stone, which will give him whatever he desires,. 
even a kingdom and people under the command of Dekar Sari 
and Dekar "Dewa. Indra Bangsawan journeys to Anta Beranta 
Permana where he orders the two Dekars to make him a kingdom 
with a court and people and a bower with a bridge of gold up to 
the bower of Dewa Ratna Kemala Sari, and to inform her father 
that on the morrow when the nine princes have come the wedding 
feast will begin. In due course Indra Bangsawan and his bride 
are enthroned on a seven-tiered stand (pancha-pérsada) and taken 
in procession and married by Wadzi Fa‘alu’d-din. The bride is. 
magnificently arrayed :— 
bérbaju késumba murub pinar émas, bérurap-urap sari jayeng ké- 
katun, bérpédaka susun télor, bértali leher tiga beht, béranting- 
anting kasna janoh pérbuatan Sailan, bérchinchin pérmata di-amt 
déngan intan ikatan Sailan, bérgélang tiga sa-bélah pérbuatan 
Pariaman, bérkilat-kilat bulu naga suir, bérsékar suhun, bérsifat 
alis manisan bérchélak séni bibir-nya merah bértému urat. dan gigi- 
nya saperti déima mérékah lidah-nya sapértr chérmin., 
Indra Bangsawan pretending to visit his goat, goes and begs. 
the magic bamboo instrument (buloh périndu) from the friendly 
demon and takes leave of his parents-in-law, purporting to take his 
bride to visit his own parents, and his brother Shah Pri with his 
bride Dewi Ratna Sari. But by the magic of a sister of the 
monster (buraksa) whom Indra Bangsawan had slain, he and his 
consort fall sick unto death. 
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