Note 1 — XV. Pride Goeth Before a Fall.

Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade technicalities.1 By the rules of this secret language tiru means “three,” puli means “ten,” and śâvana (or shortly śa) means “one.” So the leader by his song meant to hint to his fellow-traders that they were ten men, the robbers only three, that if three pounced upon each of the robbers, nine of them could hold them down, while the remaining one bound the robbers’ hands and feet.