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

Note 6 — Concerning a Prince and a Kinnara Woman

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While the two persons were living thus, a longing arose for the Princess to wear blue-lotus flowers. As this time was a season without flowers, having heard that there would be flowers only at one pool at a Kinnara village at a great distance, the Prince went there. While he was there, a Roḍi (Kinnara) woman by means of a [knowledge of the] teaching of the Kala6 spells caused the Prince to stop there, it is said.

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