2499. Her friend says,
“He wears a dress made of leaves
and in his hands he carries a bow and an arrow.
It seems he has come to hunt.
He asked us, ‘Did you see an elephant?’
He rides on Garudā and is a thief.
He asks things he can’t ask at his house.
Did our relatives tell us to go to the millet field
to answer naughty questions like this?”
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