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

Note 2 — The Story of Goḷu-Bayiyā1

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After that, the other nine persons speak, it is said: “When we say to our elder brother, ‘Gōna-Bokkā,’ the woman they are bringing for us will say, Bola, that the name called Gōna-Bokkā is not good caste [enough] for her. The woman they are bringing for us will come [now]. On account of it, let us call him Goḷu-Bayiyā. Let us give her to our Goḷu-Bayi elder brother also to neutralise2 our [inferior] names,” they are talking together, it is said.

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