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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 2 — Hiṭihāmi the Giant

H. (Henry) Parker translation

On the next day he said to his mother, “Mother, I cut a chena indeed; for the purpose of going and doing the work at a tāwalla2 also, give me food.” Afterwards his mother gave him food. Having eaten the food, the child went to the tāwalla, and put up earthen ridges over the ground for [making a field large enough for sowing in it] one and a half amuṇas (8.55 bushels) of paddy.3 Having put them up he came home.

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