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

Note 3 — The Aet-kanda Lēniyā1

H. (Henry) Parker translation

After he had gone there [and told her that he had made a white mark with charcoal, and had saved the lives of the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Lēniyā], that Princess said to the Prince, “[Before I will marry you, you must perform the tasks that I shall give you. First you must] cut a chena suitable for sowing one and a half amunas3 of mun̥” (a small pulse).

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