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

Note 7 — The Manner in which the Gamarāla buried his Sons

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On the fifth occasion, when asked what she could eat, the woman said, “There is the mind to eat (sic) buffalo milk.” When the boy was placed in the grave he said, “Anē! What did our mother and father bury me for? If I remained [with them], having arrived near a King, [after I am] exercising the sovereignty won’t our mother and father, both of them, get subsistence for themselves?”7 The story continues:—)

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