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

Note 1 — The Cat who guarded the Precepts

H. (Henry) Parker translation

After it had fallen, as he was going away with it on his neck a Jungle-hen met him, and ran off. The Cat then says, “I am guarding (that is, keeping) the Precepts (of Buddha, sil rakinawā). Tummal Kittī,1 come here and go with me.”

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