Note 4 — The Story of the Four-Fold Trap1

The youth does not know anything whatever of beating. The Gamarāla and the Washerman who reared the youth taught him, “Beat thou the tom-tom (berē) thus: ‘Thy mother [was] Tan̥gi, thy father [was] Ton̥gi; Tan̥gi and Ton̥gi.’ ”4 When the youth beat in that manner the proclamation by beat of tom-toms (aṇḍa-bera) was published in the city.