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The Eleventh Anga
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birds as well as green vegetables all of which were fried, roasted and baked, together with wine. Then that cook Siria, whose actions were of this type (here the rest to be supplied §§ 5-6, down to) having accumulated great sin and having lived his long life of thirty-three hundred years and having met with death at the time of surcease was re-born in the sixth region of hell.
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Now that house wife Samuddadattā "Jāyanindûyā" (a woman who gives birth to dead children). She bore children who met with death as soon as they were born. (Here the rest to be supplied as in the case of Gangadatta including the occuring of the idea, asking her husband, begging the favour of the deity Soriya, down to) she gave birth to a son (and so forth down to): "Because this our son was obtained through the favour of the demigod Soriya therefore let our son be 'Soriyadatta' by name.' "Then at a certain time that fisherman Samuddadatta met with death. Then that boy Soriyadatta removed the dead body of Samuddadatta weeping and being surrounded by many friends, kinsmen (here the rest to be supplied § 19, down to) performed the worldly funeral rites. And at a certain time he became the head of the fishermen, who was irreligious (here the rest to be supplied §§ 5-6, down to) difficult to be pleased. Then many men of that fisherman Soriyadatta, who were paid wages either in cash or in food, used to plunge with boats (egatthiya) every morning into the great river Jumna and used to capture
