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Overview
A hermit carrying a vast, fragrant kakayu mala flower meets four beings called fairies in Mimosa’s English telling. Each wants the blossom, which he offers to the most excellent among them. Unable to judge their competing claims himself, he refers them to the king of the Nāt country, who arranges a second trial through a rahan in the Kisokok Mountains.
The women give their names as Thada, Thati, Hiri and Ootoppa, glossed respectively as Charity, Peace, Modesty and Virtue. The rahan gives the golden fruit to Ootoppa on account of her name, and she consequently receives the flower. These spellings and English explanations belong to the 1895 retelling; the passage gives no wings, family relationship or independently verified Burmese-language identification.
Origins & earliest records
Burmese tale mediated through a pseudonymous English literary collection
Records & interpretation
Complete The Priest’s Petition, pp. 99–114, directly read; embedded fairy contest at pp. 106–109.
Selected bibliography
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Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah
The Priest’s Petition, pp. 99–114; embedded contest pp. 106–109
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Primary records and illustrations
Mimosa, Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895)
The Priest’s Petition. Full tale pp. 99–114; contest pp. 106–109
Complete framing petition and nested moral narratives read. Four names and glosses retained as printed; not independently equated with original-language deities. Named group has no stated kinship.
References
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- Historical literary retellingMimosa, Told on the Pagoda (1895), The Priest’s Petition, pp. 106–109Research access: 2026-10-05
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