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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1895.
"Oh my maid! this must be the water that my husband spat out when chewing betelnut," said she.
"This is not water spat out after chewing betel-nut, but blood," said the maids.
When they had passed on a little, they saw a harrow dressed up. As soon as Buddyanda's wife saw the harrow dressed up, she began to cry out and beat her head. The inhabitants of Upper Parimal and Brahmanas of the lower country came running when they heard her crying out.
"You men who have come running, what do you see of my beauty ?" said Buddyanda's wife. "You men hold the dead body by its hands and legs, and put it south and north on a bank of the kambula."
They took it, holding the legs and hands, and put it on the bank of the kambula.
"Let a nose-jewel and a neck-jewel, too, be on the heroes' breasts," said she.
"You break them on your husband's bosom when you are married, but why do you break them for our sake ?" asked the heroes.
They saw the beauty of Buddyanda's wife, as they went to Erajha. When they reached Erajha, they sat on the swinging cot, and Sâyina, their uncle, came to them.
"What is that stain, children, on your faces ?" asked he.
"It is the stain that we had, when we were brought out from our mother's womb," said
Kôți.
"Baddyanda came forward and we killed him," said Channayya.
"When I reared you with a handful of rice during my life time, I hoped you would burn me into five sers of ashes, when I died," said their uncle.
"Where is a present for us, uncle ?" asked they.
"O children! go to the Edambûr Châvadi, and get a present in addition to the former one, such as sallabéjá and sattánéjá," said Sâyina.
They went to the Ballâl and said to him:-"On the north part of your house there is a paddy field producing three hundred muras of rice, and sowing three sers (of paddy). Please, give us that field."
"The produce of that field is for Government taxes. Do not ask for it! Ask for another, children!" said the Ballal.
"There is a paddy field to the south of the bidu producing five hundred muṛas of rice, and sowing five sérs of paddy. Please, give us that one," said they.
"The produce of that is be used for the servants of my house. Therefore, heroes, ask for another present," said he.
"In the south of the house there is a jack tree. One of its branches produces soft jack fruits and another branch produces hard fruits. Please, give us that tree."
"Those are the fruits that the children of the house eat publicly. Ask for something else, heroes!" said he.
"There are a harrow and a pickaxe, called Râma Lachana. Give us them," said they.
"I have dry grounds, sowing sixty muras of paddy, banks which burst, and walls which fall down. Therefore, I want that harrow and pickaxe," said he.
"On a round verandah, called Padma Kattê, at your palace, there is a red cocoanut. One bunch produces an earthen jar full of tűri, and the other shoot produces a thousand cocoanuts. Give us that!"
11 Always described as "Basurûr Pannu Kotture" in the text.
