Note 2 — The Gamarāla who went to the God-World
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The man having gone, when he looked (balāpuwama) there are no gaps [in the fence] for any animal whatever to come; there are footprints. The man thought, “It is the rice mortars of the men of our village that have eaten this; I must tell the men to tie the rice mortars to the trees.” Thinking it, in the evening the man having told it to the whole of the houses,2 together with the man they tied all the rice mortars to the trees. Having tied them, the man who owned the rice field and the men of that village went to the rice field and remained looking out.