In a country, at the time when a Tom-tom Beater was going to a
devil-dance (kankariya), it became dark. While he was going along
to the village in the dark, when he was near the village having the
devil-dance, to the extent of two miles (haetaepma) from it, he met
with [an adventure] in this manner.
In the adjoining village, a man having died they took his dead body
to the burning ground; and having raised a heap of firewood, and upon
it having placed the corpse and set fire to it, at the time when his
relatives went away in the evening Maha Son Yakshaya [242] came, and
remained upon the burning funeral pyre. He said thus to the Tom-tom
Beater, it is said, "Where art thou going?"