9. Panjilaras and Santo
The king felt more and more interested in the boy and he decided to find out more about him. He called his favorite servant, Santo, and ordered him to follow Panjilaras to his home.
Santo himself was glad to do this. In his heart he was sure that Panjilaras was indeed the king’s son as the cock had revealed. But if his mother was Dewi Murti and she lived in the forest, who then was that woman who lived in the palace with the king? Santo had long since realized that ever since they had gone hunting in the woods so long ago, the “queen” had changed.
She was not the kind hearted woman she had been. She had become disagreeable and cruel. But the king was blind towards her faults, for Nikin had cast a spell on him, so that in his eyes she seemed the same as ever.
After Panjilaras had received his reward, a big sack of gold coins, Santo took him outside the palace and said, “Can I come with you to your house? You might get robbed on the way, my boy.”
Panjilaras agreed for he liked this kind-looking man, and so the two of them went together into the forest. In the little hut, Dewi Murti waited anxiously. She had been praying for the whole day long. When afternoon passed into evening and Panjilaras still had not come home, she was sure that something terrible had happened to him.
Just when she had given up hope of ever seeing her son again, there were footsteps on the garden path anda few seconds later the door was pushed open and Panjilaras rushed inside with Kinantan in one arm and a big sack in the other.
my grandmother owns some antique gold coins in her purse`:,
Comment by Pine Desk — August 15, 2010 @ 4:53 pm