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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XII. 



Friend, solve this : At the corner of our garden fence there 

 is something with three eyes on the forehead, with a greasy or 

 •oily comb like that of a cock, and with feathers spread like a peacock's. 



This refers to the cocoanut. 



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Kokek sema kanda medden badagana 

 Monara sema dasa ata pil widahagana 

 Gedikati kolanokati kavurut bedagana 

 Toranyalu me tunpade asagana. 



There is something like a crane clutching the stem of a tree, 

 and, like the peacock, with its feathers spread in the ten directions. 

 All eat its fruit, dividing among themselves, but not the leaves. 

 Friend, listen to these three lines and solve [their meaning]. 



This refers to the arecanut tree. 



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Gasata namaki gasa malakota eka namaki 

 Grediyata namaki gedi kanakota eka namaki 

 Sumbulata namaki sumbule madayata namaki 

 Me tunpade terukenek sapaneki. 



The plant has one name [while living] and another when dead ; the 

 fruit is known by one name, but when eaten by another ; the coat 

 has a name and the kernel has another ; the person who propounds 

 the meaning of these lines shall indeed be wise. 



The above refers to rice. The rice plant is called goyam, 

 the dead plant becomes pidurti (straw), the fruit wi, when 

 eaten it is hdl and bat. 



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Atuwaweni ketuwaweni kole seti 

 Ratuniilen getuwa weni male set! 

 Tunmasa giya kalata kukujek witara siti 

 Ada berinan heta tora evanuvati 



