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

Note 3 — The Thief called Haranṭikā

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At the time when he is thus, as they are taking the corpse in front of the said house, that mother and the sisters, unable to go on restraining their grief, cried out, “Anē! O our father!”3 There and then, the son who was in the Murun̆gā tree, breaking a branch also from the tree jumped down, and was as though dead.

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