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

Note 2 — Concerning the Blind-Eyed Man

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Then the blind person made many lamentations to that Heṭṭiyā: “Anē! Friend, I am a blind person. I having spoken with my wife about going to another country, while we were going in the middle of this forest wilderness, my wife got hid and went off with yet [another] man. I am now staying six days without any food. You arrived through my good luck. Anē! Friend, having gone, calling me, to the country to which you are going, send me to an asylum.2 If not, in this forest wilderness there is not any all-refuge.”3

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