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Vivāgasuyam. eggs, who were paid wages either in cash or in. food, used to carry with them every morning axes and pairs of baskets attached to a bamboostaff and carried on shoulders, and take away from the skirts of the city of Purimatāla, many eggs of the female crows, those of the female owls, those of the female pigeons, those of the "tittibhi” birds, those of the female cranes, those of the female peacocks, those of the female hens. and those of many other water animals, land: animals and birds etc., and having done so they used to fill up the pairs of baskets attached to a bamboo-staff and having done so they used to go. to the place where Ninnaa, the dealer in eggs, was and having done so they took those eggs near that Ninnaa, the dealer in eggs. Then many men of that Ninnaa, the dealer in eggs, who. Ware paid wages either in cash or in food, used to fry, roast and bake those many eggs of the female crows (here the rest to be supplied,, down to the eggs of the female hens and those of many other water animals, land animals and birds etc. in frying pans, baking pans, roasting pans, earthen frying pans and in burning charcoals, and having done so they used to earn their livelihood by selling eggs in the market. of the principal street of the town. That Ninnaa, the dealer in eggs, himself, also, used to live by tasting and eating wine ( and so forth as in s 10) together with those many eggs of the female crows (here the rest to be supplied down to )
