Note 3 — The Story of Goḷu-Bayiyā1

Then, several days wearing down the road, the youngest brother of all having come, said, it is said, “Elder brothers, I went to ask at Oṭannāpahuwa. The woman indeed is of good lineage (wan̥śe). They sent word, ‘Who gives in marriage to a young youngster?3 Tell the elder brothers, one of them, to come.’ ”