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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JUNE, 1895.
Then they put the cocoanut on a bed as a present.
"Let it go. Though Buddyanda is not here, let us see the five corners of this palace," said they. When they looked into the five corners of the palace they found Buddyanda sitting covered over with some torn pieces of matting, hiding himself behind a hollow post.
"Buddyanda's wife! What is that in the torn pieces of matting ?” asked they. "O children! They are seeds of the months Suggi and Enel," said she. " Which are of Enel!" asked Koti.
“Which are of Suggi," asked Channayya. “Let us see whether they are of Suggi or of Enel."
He tried with his dagger if it was soft. "I see both of Enel and Suggi. Kõți! let us go," said Channayya. Then the heroes went away.
“Who are they that put a cocoanut on my heart ?" asked Buddyanda, and threw away the cocoanut.
"Buddyanda, do not do so," said his wife. "It may be useful to you to eat with small numbers and with some tender boiled padipe leaves. There are no cocoanuts on the tree and no tenants of the apper fields."
Then they took the cocoanut, broke it, and went away, eating the cocoanut.
Then the heroes went on to Erajha, calling the following persons - a servant named Kanada Kattire, a Muggêra called Iral Kurave, and Bail Bakuda, and ordered them to cat the glass and the sides of the banks of their lambula, to heap some soil to be burnt, and to ecutter some leaves (over the field).
“ We know of a good week and day on which to begin the coltivation. Now we want to plough with four yokes and to sow in a corner," they said to each other. "We left three months in the middle, and began to cultivate the kambulu in the month of Sona. In the month of Sôna we made the servants chop leaves in pieces. We made them plongh five times, and harrow nine times. We made them plough in such a way, that there is no difference between the soil and the water. Buddyanda made his servants plough his field nine times and harrow five times; and not even a blade of grass beut!"
When they were passing by Hanidotti Bail, Bnddyanda came up to them.
“Where are you going, Buddyanda ? My brother wants to know," said Kôti. “I am going to the hut of the astrologer Bira Ballya at Matti to ascertain the day for sowing the kanbula," said Buddyanda.
"Plense, wait a while. I will go to Erajha and bring a coceanu," said Channayya.
He went to Erajha. He put a dder to the upper story, took a cocoanut stored there. - took away the outer shell and folded it in his thick chuti. Ho gave the cocoanut to Buddyanda.
"Buddyanda! when you ask about a day for your kambula, you should ask about a day for the Billavar boys' field," said Channayya.
Buddyanda, soon after the heroes left, broke the cocoanut into pieces and went off, eating tl em to the house of Bira Ballya at Matt. When he got there and called to him, Balladi, Bira Ballya's wife, answered the call. Where is Baly ya gone, BallAldi P" asked he.
"Hiving told the people of Uppo. Parmat and the lowcountries of the good and the bad, he has come back and taken a bath in both cold and wa mwater. He has drank ricowater and now sleeps quietly," answered she.
