[1] Widi lokuda madi lokuda, lit., Is Destiny great or insufficiently great? [↑]

[2] The word in the text is gollē, “O party.” [↑]

[3] Attara pini-diya. [↑]

[4] Gēṭṭuwa. [↑]

[5] Anācāra darmmē yedī. In the two later instances the second word is darmmayehi. [↑]

No. 266

The Teacher and his Pupil

In a certain country there were a woman and her two children. After the woman’s husband went and died, there not being any all-refuge (saw-saraṇak) for the woman and children, after the children became big they remained without learning.