 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 pages
...The reason and original of this fatal enmity is this ; according to a fable among the Cingalese. • These two chanced to meet in a dry season, when water...people, to wash their children in a bowl of water, and there leave £xc. CAR. I. 22 them, to tumble and play in it. Here the Noya had quenched his thirst,... | |
 | 1903 - 480 pages
...other. The reason and original of this fatal enmity is this ; according to a fable among the Cingalese. These two chanced to meet in a dry season, when water...people, to wash their children in a bowl of water, and there leave 3i2 MORE PROVERBS AND FABLES. them, to tumble and play in it. Here the Noya had quenched... | |
 | Robert Knox - 1911 - 590 pages
...enmity between The Fable of these two Serpents, is this, according to a Fable among the Chingulays. These two chanced to meet in a dry Season, when water...find a little water. The Noya a little before had met 47 with a bowl of water in which a Child lay playing. As it is usual among this people to wash their... | |
 | Robert Knox - 2004 - 122 pages
...fatal enmity between these two serpents, is this, according to a fable among the Chingu- polollg lays. These two chanced to meet in a dry season, when water...people to wash their children in a bowl of water, and there leave them to tumble and play in it. Here the noya quenched his thirst; but, as he was drinking,... | |
 | Robert Knox - 2004 - 166 pages
...other. The reason and original of this fatal enmity is this ; according to a fable among the Cingalese. These two chanced to meet in a dry season, when water...people, to wash their children in a bowl of water, and there leave them, to tumble and play in it. Here the Noya had quenched his thirst, but, as he was drinking,... | |
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These two chanced to meet in a dry Season, when water was scarce. The Polonga being almost famished for thirst, asked the Noya, where he might go to find a little water. The Noya a little before had met with a bowl of water in which a Child lay playing.... 