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155
For ajjā 'genteel woman', from Sanskrit aryā, see Thieme (1938: 99-100). For the halia being married to a woman of a higher social position, see below.
sudhie as found in Ma, Ti, Tp, Bh and R.
Note that the rainy season is otherwise associated precisely with conjugal happiness. Yet another point in the Gāthā is the stupidity of the woman. Though she curses the rainy season it is, with the harvesting season, the only time of the year when her husband has ample work and consequently enjoys income.
10
The text is based on Ma, Ti, Tp, Bh, R and T.
11
This Gathā is absent in the Third South-Indian recension.
12 . săricchide as found in Ma and Tp.
13
See Fick; 1897: 164.
14
The text is based on Ma and Tp.
15 This applies to the simple villagers in general. Note the complaint in the preceding Gatha: vaṁk a kopulaijjai...pāmar apaure haaggāme.
16
The meaning of the Gathā becomes clear only from a comparison with 193:
