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

Note 4 — The Nā, Mī, and Blue-Lotus Flowers’ Princesses

H. (Henry) Parker translation

On the hill there were rocks. Having come [and found the hive], sitting down at them he drew out the comb. Having drawn it out, when he looked in the hive (mīya) there was an ash-pumpkin [flower]. He took out the ash-pumpkin [flower], and when he looked in it there was a Princess.4 Having gone away, taking the Princess also, after sitting down under a Nā-tree and looking and looking around, eating and eating the honey he gave to the Princess also. This Princess in a day or two became big.

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