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

Note 3 — The Story of the Four-Fold Trap1

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Well then, after all the Tom-tom Beaters came, the King says, “All of you go at one time into that house,”3 he said. After that, all the Tom-tom Beaters at one time entered the house. Afterwards the King struck off (gaesuwāya) the Four-fold Trap. Well then, all the Tom-tom Beaters died.

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