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... JACKAL AND THE HARE 31 THE LEOPARD AND THE MOUSE - DEER • 199 201 • • 206 • 209 · 213 32 THE CROCOdile's WedDING 33 THE GAMARĀLA'S CAKES 34 THE KINNARĀ AND THE PARROTS 35 HOW A JACKAL SETTLED A Lawsuit · 36 THE JACKAL AND THE TURTLE 37 ...
... JACKAL AND THE HARE 31 THE LEOPARD AND THE MOUSE - DEER • 199 201 • • 206 • 209 · 213 32 THE CROCOdile's WedDING 33 THE GAMARĀLA'S CAKES 34 THE KINNARĀ AND THE PARROTS 35 HOW A JACKAL SETTLED A Lawsuit · 36 THE JACKAL AND THE TURTLE 37 ...
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... JACKAL'S JUDGMENT 64 THE HERON AND THE CRAB 65 THE JACKAL AND THE BRAHMAŅA 66 THE CAT WHO GUARDED THE PRECEPTS 67 THE LIZARD AND THE LEOPARD . 53 THE POTS OF OIL 54 THE MOUSE MAIDEN 55 SIGIRIS SINÑO , THE GIANT 56 THE PROUD JACKAL ...
... JACKAL'S JUDGMENT 64 THE HERON AND THE CRAB 65 THE JACKAL AND THE BRAHMAŅA 66 THE CAT WHO GUARDED THE PRECEPTS 67 THE LIZARD AND THE LEOPARD . 53 THE POTS OF OIL 54 THE MOUSE MAIDEN 55 SIGIRIS SINÑO , THE GIANT 56 THE PROUD JACKAL ...
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... JACKAL AND THE HARE · 209 31 THE LEOPARD AND THE MOUSE - DEER 32 THE CROCODile's WeddiNG 33 THE GAMARĀLA'S CAKES · • 213 216 · 219 34 THE KINNARĂ AND THE PARROTS • 224 35 How A JACKAL SETTLED A Lawsuit 228 • 36 37 THE JACKAL AND THE ...
... JACKAL AND THE HARE · 209 31 THE LEOPARD AND THE MOUSE - DEER 32 THE CROCODile's WeddiNG 33 THE GAMARĀLA'S CAKES · • 213 216 · 219 34 THE KINNARĂ AND THE PARROTS • 224 35 How A JACKAL SETTLED A Lawsuit 228 • 36 37 THE JACKAL AND THE ...
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... JACKAL'S JUDGMENT 64 THE HERON AND THE CRAB • 65 THE JACKAL AND THE BRAHMAṆA 66 THE CAT WHO GUARDED THE PRECEPTS 67 THE LIZARD AND THE LEOPARD . 68 THE LION AND THE JACKAL STORIES OF THE RODIYĀS . vii PAGE 291 302 304 308 • 312 · 316 ...
... JACKAL'S JUDGMENT 64 THE HERON AND THE CRAB • 65 THE JACKAL AND THE BRAHMAṆA 66 THE CAT WHO GUARDED THE PRECEPTS 67 THE LIZARD AND THE LEOPARD . 68 THE LION AND THE JACKAL STORIES OF THE RODIYĀS . vii PAGE 291 302 304 308 • 312 · 316 ...
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... jackal , a deer , or a reptile . It will be seen that I have not attempted to translate the interjections into English . It will be noticed that in the majority of the tales the characters are introduced in the present tense , which is ...
... jackal , a deer , or a reptile . It will be seen that I have not attempted to translate the interjections into English . It will be noticed that in the majority of the tales the characters are introduced in the present tense , which is ...
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Afterwards Anē became behead betel bird Black Stork Bola Brāhmaṇa brought burnt cakes cattle Ceylon chena clothes cobra coconut cooked rice creeper Crocodile daughter eaten elder brother elder sister elephant father fire flower Folk-Tales Friend Gamarāla gave giant girl give given Glass Princess golden gone ground hand Hare Heṭṭiyā horse Indian Jackal Jātaka story jungle Kaekiri Kāma killed King asked King's Leopard Lion Lion King Lizard Loku-Appu looked married masuran milk-rice millet trader Monkey mother Nāga night North-western Province paddy palace Panchatantra Parrot persons Pond Heron pots Prince asked Prince's Puttalam Queen Rakshasa replied returned rice field river Rodiya saying seized Seṭṭiyārē Sinhalese stayed Storks sword taking Tamarind thee thou to-day told tom-tom beaters took tree Turtle Vaeddā variant Vedarāla Village Headman Vishnu Washerman wife woman Yakā younger brother youngest Princess
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Page 140 - fore our fader the pope. Now welcome, sire abbot, the king he did say, Tis well thou'rt come back to keepe thy day ; For and if thou canst answer my questions three, Thy life and thy living both saved shall bee.
Page 139 - Now three weeks space to thee will I give, And that is the longest time thou hast to live; For if thou dost not answer my questions three, Thy lands and thy livings are forfeit to mee.
Page 140 - I may ride this whole world about." " You must rise with the sun, and ride with the same Until the next morning he rises again; And then your grace need not make any doubt But in twenty-four hours you'll ride it about.
Page 140 - And then your grace need not make any doubt, But in twenty-four hours you'll ride it about. The king he laughed, and swore by St. Jone, I did not think it could be gone so soon ! — Now from the third question thou must not shrink, But tell me here truly what I do think.
Page 33 - There was neither day, nor night, nor sky, nor earth, nor darkness, nor light, nor any other thing, save only one incomprehensible by intellect, or that which is Brahma and Puman (spirit) and Pradhdna (matter),' p. 12. In the opening of the book of the Edda, called
Page 140 - Yea, that shall I do, and make your grace merry : You thinke I'm the abbot of Canterbury ; But I'm his poor shepheard, as plain you may see, That am come to beg pardon for him and .for mee.
Page 140 - The king he laughed, and swore by St. Jone, I did not think, it could be gone so soone ! — Now from the third question thou must not shrinke. But tefl me here truly what I do thinke.
Page 347 - In the Panchatantra (Dubois), an Ass was brought to a sick Lion King in order that he might eat the heart and ears, as a remedy for his illness. When he was brought back the second time by a Jackal, the Lion killed him and ate the heart and ears. In the Katha Sarit Sagara (Tawney), p. 85, there is a similar story, except that after killing the Ass the Lion went to bathe, and the Jackal then ate the heart and ears. He told the Lion that " the creature never possessed ears or a heart, otherwise how...
Page 33 - Janarddana 145, invested with the quality of darkness, assumes the awful form of Rudra, and swallows up the universe. Having thus devoured all things, and converted the world into one vast ocean, the Supreme reposes upon his mighty serpent couch amidst the deep: he awakes after a season, and again, as Brahma, becomes the author of creation. Thus the one only god, Janarddana, takes the designation of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, accordingly as he creates, preserves, or destroys 146.
Page 152 - Even my lineage, this YakkhinI is acquainted with it,' proclaiming his title, and quickly seizing his bow, he rushed at her. Securing the YakkhinI by the throat with a ' naracana ' ring, with his left hand seizing her by the hair, and raising his sword with his right hand, he exclaimed, ' Slave ! restore me my followers, or I will put thee to death.