2687. “‘She hit herself on her stomach and said,
“Who could have done this except this naughty one?”
She asked Kannan, “Did you do this?”
She got very angry, shouted at him,
took a long rope, tied him to the mortar
and spanked him as the villagers looked on.
He didn’t stop her. 15
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