narrated in Samguk Yusa, a Korean text written by a monk, Iryon (1206 AD-1289 AD).

It is set in the Kaya kingdom in the first century CE. It says that the area, in the south central Korean peninsula, was first ruled by nine elders, but there was no king. One day, a voice spoke from heaven at a place called Kujibong (means 'the hill shaped like turtle' in Korean). A few hundred people gathered there, along with three elders. The voice instructed them to go to the top of the mountain, dig up some earth, dance and sing a song, now known as Kujiga. They did as instructed and a plum-coloured cord descended from heaven.

At the end of the cord was a gold chest and when they opened it, they discovered six golden orbs. The elders brought the chest home and the next day they opened it to discover that the orbs had transformed into a baby boy.

The boy grew quickly (a sure sign of a hero) and reached a height or nine feet. When the moon waxed to its fullest that month, the boy - who was now called Kim Suro (Kim means gold) - came to the throne of the land that was named Kaya. After two years he built his own palace and ruled from there. When the nine elders encouraged the king to take a bride he refused, saying that heaven had sent him to be king and heaven would take care of his marriage as well.

Cut to India, where Huh Hwang-ok was a princess in 'Ayuta' (Ayodhya?). In Iryon's text, the princess says that she was 16 years old when she reached Kaya, that her family name was Huh and her name, Hwang-ok (yellow jade in Korean). The princess narrates the circumstances leading to her marriage to King Suro thus: "In May this year, my father and mother said, 'We had a dream last night, in which we saw a God who said, I have sent down Suro to be king of Kaya. Suro is a holy man, and is not yet married. So send your daughter to become his queen'. Then he ascended to heaven. My daughter, bid farewell to your parents and go'."

Other accounts of the text, however, say that it was Hwang-ok who got the dream.