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.”