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

Note 1 — The Kulē-bakā Flowers

H. (Henry) Parker translation

As they were going, the four persons went to a city. A courtesan stayed in that city; her name was Diribari-Lakā.1 She gambled (i.e. kept a gambling house). These four persons went to her house, and having gone there prepared to gamble. Then the woman said, “Should you lose by this game, I shall make you four persons prisoners (that is, slaves).” The four persons having said, “It is good,” gambled, and all four having lost remained there as prisoners.

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