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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 1 — Concerning a Monk and a Yakā

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Then the monk said, “Having cut a well of seven fathoms, and having cut a Damunu1 tree, and removed the splinters, and put it down to the bottom of a well, and tied a creeper noose to the Damunu stick, you are to draw it up [from inside the well] to the ground.”

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