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

Note 1 — Concerning the Heṭṭi Man’s Son

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Evidently a post in which he had the title of Raja, and not the general government of the whole country. A ruler termed “the Eastern King” (Pacina Raja) is mentioned in an early inscription (Dr. Müller’s, No. 34A); as no such title is found in the histories, he may have been a district governor. The hero of this story appears to have received a somewhat similar post. ↑

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