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THE CHILD MIYAPUTTA
24. Now that district-officer, Ekkái, said, “I hear not " when hearing, and “I hear” when not hearing with reference to the cases and trials of many kings, chiefs,' nobles, merchants and many other village-folk of the district Vijayavaddhamán 1. Similarly when seeing, speaking, taking or knowing he said " I did not see" and vice versa. Thus that Ekkái, the district-officer, lived committing ? many an evil deed,
25. Then, once upon a time, there appeared simultaneously in the district-officer Ekkái's body sixteen diseases and sicknesses, to .wit: asthama, cough, fever, inflammatory fever, belly-ache, fistula on the anus, piles, indigestion, disease of the eyes, headache, satiety, sore-eyes, ear disease, itching, dropsy and leprosy.
26. Then that Ekkái, the district-officer, being inflicted by sixteen diseases and sicknesses summoned his domestic servants and said, “ Ge ye, beloved of the gods, crying with a loud voice at the cross-ways, crossings 3 and highroads of the town, Vijayavad. dhamáņa, speak out, "Truly' O beloved of the gods, sixteen diseases and sicknesses, viz. asthama down to leprosy, have appeared in the district-officer Ekkái's body. If any physician or a physican's son, a wise
1. Tatar=tra. 2. Refur 'to earn,' 'to collect
3. 556 Hind. cauk), and are crossings whore four roads meet, fire where three roads meet, featco where many roads moet.
4. Novice or an apprentice.
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