Note 3 — The Story of the Vīra Tree Fish-Owls1
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Having [thus] talked, for the purpose of asking for the daughter of King Moṭānis [in marriage] the two called Noisy-Drummer and Trap-Setter having gone to Kurupiṭi City, and perched on the portico (toraṇa) near the palace of King Moṭānis, cried with the sound, “Ūm, Ūm.”3