[6] Ewaessa māmā, mother’s brother. [↑]
No. 215
The Story of Bahu-Bhūtayā
In a certain city a woman had become dexterous at dancing. It became public everywhere that there was not a single person in the whole of Great Dam̆badiva (India) to dance with (i.e., equal to) the woman.
At the same time, there was also a boy called Bahu-Bhūtayā, a boy of a widow woman. While he is [there], one day the aforesaid woman went for dancing to the village called Balaellāewa.[1] Having danced that day, she obtained a thousand masuran.
Thereafter, she went to dance at the house of the Dippiṭiyās[2], at the village called Koṭikāpola, which was near the same village. On the same day the aforesaid Bahu-Bhūtayā also went in order to look at the woman’s dances. Bahu-Bhūtayā before this had learnt dances from the Danḍapola Kōrāla (headman).
While Bahu-Bhūtayā, having gone, and looked and looked, was there, she began to dance, having sung and sung poetical songs, and beaten and beaten cymbals. The woman says,
“The savages that are to Lan̥kā bound!