Note 1 — The Margōsa Tree

Rājā hō, mā hō, gangā hō. “Either the King, or I, or the river” [floods] will come to an end (naeti wenawā). He meant that if the periodical floods in the river did not come to an end, the job would last during the King’s life-time, and that if he gave it up he had nothing else to live upon. ↑