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Thereafter (the other two) in the city of Baravai, in the second open place in the families high etc. [until] let them go. Thereafter [the third two] in the city of Baraval in the third open place in the families high etc. [until] offered them the tray of Sihkesara sweet-balls. Having offered the tray, she thus said "Do, Beloved of Gods, in this city of Baravai of Kanha Vasudeva [nine yojanas...the heaven to all sight] Niggantha monks, wandering in the families high [etc.] not get food and drink that they enter again and again the same families for food and drink? "
Then those friars spoke to Queen Devai "Verily, Beloved of Gods, it is not that Niggantha monks, wandering in the families, high [etc.] in the city of Baraval of Kanha Vasudeva [until] which is the veritable heaven to all sight, do not get food or drink nor is it that they enter the same families even twice or thrice for food and drink. Thus verily, Beloved of Gods, we,-the sons of householder Naga, by himself through his wife Sulasa, brothers by the same mother, exactly alike [until] resembling Nalakubbara -having heard the doctrine in the presence
