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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1895.
"I and Sanda Giddi have been at enmity for a long time, but I will shew you his house at a distance. You may go there," said he.
So they went and called "Sanda Giddi! Sanda Giddi !" When they called him, he was not there, but his wife answered the call,
“Do you know, girl, where he has gone?" asked they. "He went to a garadi16 at Peru Perumunda to teach boys to write and play," said she.
"O girl! why did he go to the garadi at Peru Perumundê ?" asked they again. "He went to teach boys to play," said she.
Then they went to the garadi at Peru Perumande. Sanda Giddi saw them from a distance, sent away all the boys, and sat still, shutting the doors on all the four sides. The heroes went three times round the garadi.
“Let us see if there is any entrance to this garadi or not,” said Channayya.
So they broke down the frame of the door, and the stone doors themselves. They entered. and stood in the middle of garadi.
"If we are to fight seven battles, you can tell me how many kinds of lizards there are here?" said Channayya to Koti.
“There is a green lizard and there is a blue lizard," said the elder brother. Then they examined the four sides of the garadi and found Sanda Giddi standing like a lizard behind a kandodt post.
“Why did you stand there, Sanda Giddi?" asked the younger brother. "I concealed myself from my creditors, but I do not know who you are," said he. They asked him who the teachers and scholars in the garadi were. “They who came after me are pradanis (ministers), and I am the king !" said he.
"I went to examine the king, fought with him and put him on a rafter with his dagger. Now who is pradani or king ?" asked Channayya.
“Now they are kings who came after me, and I am a pradani,” said Sanda Giddi.
Sanda Giddi took them home and shat the doors of the garadi. As soon as he got home, he called his wife, ordered her to clean a hut, to purify it, to wave fire over it, and to spread a mat.
" You heroes, sit down awhile, as the sun is hot," said Sanda Giddi.
Sanda Giddi went out with a dirty sickle and with a blunt sickle. He went to the chůvadi of Kemira at Pañja, and told the people that the two heroes had come.
"If they stay in this country they will not leave even a single village standing. We should somehow try to kill them; at any rate we should put them in prison," said Sanda Giddi to Kemira. “Do you hide yourself upstairs. Let them salute Jaru Kottari, the son of the concubine Siddu, instead of you."
Then he went home and took the heroes to the palace. Sanda Giddi went and saluted Jaru Kottari.
"If we are to salate, let us see who is the master and who are the servants," said Channayya.
So they looked round and saw Kemira of Pañja murmuring and biting his lips.
"Do not act like a buffalo. We did not come to ask about the debt. Thistles grow not on the road by which we came and we had better return back," said the brothers.
Kemira Ballal came down the stairs and thrust out Kottari by the neck, and sat on his throne. "Heroes ! I did it wantonly to try you," said he.
16 A public school house.
