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il In Vesak month receive offerings, 

 In Esala make processions, 

 In Medindina hold an-keliya ; 

 Thus will all diseases quit the world." 



The remaining Stanzas (60-77) relate in incoherent fashion Pattini's 

 birth and certain incidents connected with the origin of an-keliya* 



The extra verses would seem to cover an alternative version of the 

 former half (Stanzas 1-54) of " AnkeU vpata" They commence — 



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Is the (mighty) sun unclean ? 



Is the (gentle) moon unclean? 



Are we also (held) unclean 



To pluck the fragrant sandal flower ? 



They then proceed to describe the efforts of Pattini and PaJanga to 

 pluck the flower. The gods provide a cord and staff of gold ; Pattini 

 spares six of her waist-robes in succession (for a rope ladder); Palagga 

 mounts the tree, and on the topmost bough descries " the fiery champak 



flower" (gini sapu mal) : — 



" Like a huge water-pot, 



With stalk of seven cubits, 



Countless petals surrounding thousand buds, 



There the bee sucks and wasp and hornet sport." 



Sandal wood hooks and a gold arekanut-cutter are miraculously 

 forthcoming, and, in striving to reach the flower, the two hooks catch. 

 Unable to unloose them, Pattini and Palagga weep " till their eyes are 

 red." The god of the sky then sends a thousand of his ministering spirits 

 and the goddess of earth a thousand of her train, to aid in pulling the 

 hooks asunder. Palanga's hook is broken, and, in wrath, he proceeds 

 in search of horns through the lands of Holi, Kalinga, Telinga, Kdsi, 

 Bangdli as far as Andara desa, where he at last obtains a thousand horns. 

 Placing these on the backs of a thousand oxen, he recrossed the sea to 



* These stanzas have probably been interpolated into the original 

 poem, and add nothing to its interest. 



