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vi. 16-

1. O ābayu, non-ābayu! thy juice is sharp (ugrá), O ābayu! unto thy broth do we eat.

2. Vihálha by name is thy father, madávatī ('intoxicated') by name is thy mother; for thou art he, not thyself, thou that didst consume thyself.

3. O tāuvilikā, quiet down; this racket hath quieted down; both the brown and the brown-eared one: go away, O nirāla!

4. Alasálā art thou first; silā́njālā art thou after; nīlāgalasálā.

This verse is wanting in Pāipp. (save so far as its last word is found in that version of vs. 2). The comm. understands the three obscure words it contains to be names of