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

Note 5 — The Girl, the Monk, and the Leopard

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Thereafter, that box floated down to the place where the monk’s pupils stayed. Getting the box ashore, and tying [it as] a load (tadak) for a carrying pole, they took it to the pansala. The monk, taking the box, quickly placed it inside the house. The monk told the pupils to stay: “To-day I must say Bana5 from a different treatise (sūtra); to-day you must respond, ‘Sādhu,’ loudly.”

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