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

Note 5 — The Manner in which the Gamarāla buried his Sons

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(On the next occasion the woman stated, in reply to her husband’s inquiry as to what food she wanted, that she required nothing. When the son was buried he said, “What [did they bury] me for? For them5 I—the tom-tom beater does not beat the tom-tom—will beat many.”6 They said, “That one [is] not ours—a tom-tom beater’s boy,” and they finished the burial and returned home.

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