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

Note 3 — How the Nāgayā became the Princess

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At this time, because the Siṭu Princess whom the Prince was intending to take in marriage had been taken and given and settled for another person, he contracted marriage with another Princess. On the day of the festival at which he contracts3 this marriage, on his sending to his indigent former wife a sort of cakes in which poison was mixed, when she was partaking of them she performed the act of Yama.4

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