Village Folk-tales of Ceylon ...Luzac & Company, 1910 - Folklore |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aet-Kanda Afterwards Anē became behead betel bird Black Stork Boar Bola Brāhmaṇa bring brought cakes Ceylon chena clothes cobra coconut cooked rice Crocodile Crow daughter Deer eaten elder brother elder sister elephant father fire Folk-Tales Friend Gamarāla gave girl give Glass Princess golden gone ground hand Hare Heṭṭiya horse hundred masuran Indian Jackal Jātaka story jungle Kaekiri killed King asked King's Leopard Lion Lion King Lizard looked married milk-rice millet millet trader Monkey mother Mouse-deer Nāga night Nikini North-western Province oil-mill palace Panchatantra Parrots persons pingo Pond Heron pots Prince asked Puttalam Queen Rakshasa replied returned rice field river seize Sinhalese stayed stick Storks sword taking Tamarind thee thou to-day told tom-tom beaters took tree Turtle Vaeddā variant Vedarāla Village Headman Vishnu Washerman Water-pot widow woman wife Yakā youngest Princess
Popular passages
Page 156 - 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 156 - 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 soone! — Now from the third question thou must not shrinke, But tell me here truly what I do thinke.
Page 156 - I may ride this whole world about. You must rise with the sun, and ride with the same, Until the next morning he riseth again; And then your grace need not make any doubt, But in twenty-four hours you'll ride it about.
Page 156 - I'm his poor shepheard, as plain you may see, That am come to beg pardon for him and for mee. The king he laughed, and swore by the masse, lie make thee lord abbot this day in his place! Now naye, my liege, be not in such speede, For alacke I can neither write, ne reade.
Page 156 - And tell the old abbot, when thou comest home, Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John.
Page 49 - 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.
Page 155 - 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 168 - even my lineage, this yakkhini is acquainted with it," rapidly proclaiming his title, and bending his bow, he rushed at her. Securing the yakkhini by the throat with a " narachana " 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.
Page 49 - 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 Punian (spirit) and Pradhana (matter)/ p.