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

Note 1 — Concerning a Prince and a Kinnara Woman

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Thereafter the servants, keeping this word in mind, and the Prince being concealed [in it], took the lamp to the royal house, it is said. The King, having seen the lamp and having thought, “This is an extremely fine lamp. This is suitable for placing in my daughter’s chamber,” asked the price of it, it is said. Thereupon the servants who took the lamp fixed the price at four hundred masuran. And when the King said, “This is not worth so much; I will give seventy-five1 masuran,” the servants because of the Prince’s word gave the lamp at that price, it is said.

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