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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

INDEX

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Abandoned city, 167

Ābaraṇa, 49, 55, 68, 380

Abduction of girl, 43, 224; K., 20; Princess, 18, 27; Queen, 34

Abuccalā, fathers, 245

Abuse, a demon scarer, 101, 290, 291

Act of Truth, 28, 29, 31, 32, 47

Address in third person is honorific, 5, 6, 20, 67, 81, 144, 147, 215

Adieu, form of, 305

Adikārama, and K., 54, 55; appoints K., 55, 56; Vaeddā appointed, 59

Ændiri kawla, 123

Æwari kanuwa, 208

Agārē, 215

Ahalyā, and Indra, 236; turned into stone, 375

Allan Bostan̥, 103

Alms-hall, 217; established to obtain son, 361

Alut kathāwa, 181

Ambuḍa, bathing-cloth, 84, 184

Amrapāli, born from mango flowers, 319

Ana-karaṇaya, 226

Andara-waewa, 180; giant’s birth-place, 175

Andris, H. B. and Co., on pañca-tūrya, 49; on wawnna, 197

Animals, assist man, 436, Prince, 322, Princess, 81, 391; killed as proof of execution, 199, 217, 310, 318, 324; spring at reflection in river or well:—bear, 385, jackal, 148, 149, lion, 386, 387, tiger, 386, 387; take human form, 390–392

Animation suspended, 245, 375, 379

Animism, 375, 376

Ants, story of, 417

Apartment inside rock, 370, 373, 374

Appuhāmi, adventures of, 116–119, 266–268; son of Chief, 266

Apsaras, 158, 236; garments hidden while bathing, 353, 354; turned to stone or wood, 374, 375; turns Prince to ashes, 353

Archer, appointed by K., 233; arrows turn back, 29–31; hits bird, 158, cobra, 158, hidden egg, 35, 37; shoots at star, 159, near ear or nose, 157, 159

Arts and sciences learnt, 13, 33, 37, 42, 127, 146

Ascetic, becomes Rākshasa, 284; explains naekata falsely, 283; injured or killed by monkey, 283, 284; power of, 28, 29, 31, 129

Ash-pumpkin fruit Prince, 401

Ass, and bull, 419, 420; strangles fox and wolf, 400

Astrologer advises setting girl afloat in river, 151, 280, 283, 284

At-waela, bangle, 215; hand-line, 27, 67

Auspicious, sal garden, 67; wish, 380

Automata, wooden, 22

Āyibō, 298

Baḍa paḷanawā, 187

Bākshas, 257

Baldaeus on coins, 213

Bali ceremony, 298

Ball, charmed, tied to save crop, 179

Bamba K., 339; daughter marries Nāga, 342; punishes turtle, 340

Baṇa, 124, 282, 403, 404

Baṇḍā or Baṇḍāra deified, 180; son of Chief, 266

Barter, 57, 58; areka-nuts for betel leaves, 91; clay for sand, 95; coconuts for palm sugar, 64; old peas for ass, 95; sand for cow-dung, 94; six dogs for two pots, 58; thirty bulls for twelve horses, 57; twelve horses for two elephants, 57; two elephants for twelve dogs, 58

Bath, warm, 196, 197; Gamarāla scalded, 184

Bear, abducts Princess and has two children, 385; and Ḍabukkā, 397; and woman, 287; carried in sack, 297, 298; kills youth, 298; married by raja, 392; springs at reflection in well, 386; spun cotton, 195–197

Beating, 84, 86, 112, 118, 182, 190, 205, 418–420; rejuvenates woman, 117; with broom, 234

Beautiful girl described, 302

Bed, magical, 30, 355; plaited, 401

Beggar, and Queen, 380, 381; and wife’s dispute, 62; meeting one a bad omen, 380; personates K. and insults Q., 380, 381

Beggars cheat each other, 93

Bēri-Nādayā, 231

Betel leaves, mode of carrying, 90; presented to devil-dancers, 204, to soothsayer, 37, 121; wager of leaf, 62

Bhairava, 354, 375

Bhimasēna goes for golden lotus, 319

Bhūta, afraid of woman’s abuse and blows, 290, 291; and Kūta, 394–395; frightened by men, 261; “possesses” women, 290

Binna marriage, 15, 46, 57, 127, 135, 144, 165–167, 181, 192, 222, 349, 355, 357, 362, 388

Bird carries off talisman, 127; kills elephant, 445–448; when dead continues to speak to man, 430–433; after being eaten flies away, 433

Birth-mark, 336

Blindness cured, by Princess, 145; by remorse, 218; by rubbing flower on eyes, 359

Blood, bowl of, 271–273; smeared on weapon to prove execution, 27, 199, 217, 310, 318, 324

Blue-lotus flower, 24; brought by Prince, 311, 312, 321, 326; comes into hand, 321; contains Princess, 312, 319, 326; girl born from, 319; girl’s eyes like, 302; guarded by crocodile, 312, 329; life index, 165–167, 169

Bō-branch severed at Gayā, 32

Bonga (deity), 129; maiden marries Prince, 129; sub-aqueous houses of, 21

Boṭiyā and leopard, 393, 394

Bow, cotton, golden, 195–197

Bowl, magical, 355; of blood, 273

Boy, and Rākshasī, 274–276; and Yaksanī, 269 ff.; becomes prēta, 374; carried off in sack, 270, 274, 275, 278; creates cake tree, 270; kills Rākshasī and daughter, 274–279; kills Yaksanī and daughter, 273–274; marries dog, 405–406

Brāhmaṇa, and bride, 86; and courtesan, 438; and King’s robe, 66; and kitten, 425 ff.; and weaver, 233; becomes Brahma-Rākshasa, 290; explains naekata, 283; marries Rākshasī, 240; receives magic cups, 236; seized by Kinnarī or Rākshasī, 241–243

Branch cut while sitting on it, 72, 74, 75

Branding Princes or prisoners, 355, 357

Breeches (uḍa), 114

Bride carried in sack, 297; claimed by Vaeddās, 158; ceremony to guard her from evil influences, 298; married K., 298; price paid for, 137

Brilliance of Prince, 347, 365, 378; of Yaksanī, 302

Broom, beating with, 234

Brother, proposed marriage to sister, 169, 198, 201–202; orders wife to murder her, 199

Brothers, seven, marry seven sisters, 215; were giants, 162, 163; were Princes, 388; when blind recover sight, 217, 218

Buddha’s wooden statue, 284, 437, 438

Bull, and ass, 419, 420; turned into stone, 245

Burial, of K., 55, 56; monk, 283; Princess, 38; villager, 44, 61, 62,73–75, 93

Burn cured by cow-dung, 219

Burning with heated gold against magic, 62

Cake tree, 83, 269, 270, 274, 276–278; created, 270, 274, 277

Cakes, 83; fixed on branches, 83, 277; materials for, 269; offered to Yakā, 208, 209; stories of, 61–63

Calf strangles leopard, 399

Caṇḍāla, 194; girl’s marriage, 428

Cannibal became block of wood, 279; K., 167; Prince, 196

Cannibalism, 167, 196, 367 ff.

Carpenter, 13–15, 17–20, 23, 169, 170; makes flying wooden peacock, 21, 23; repairs crow’s egg, 35; repairs ship, 36

Carpenter’s son, friend of Prince, 13, 14, 23, 24; becomes Minister, 20; kills K., 20; makes flying wooden peacock, 19; steals cobra stone, 19

Caste lost by associating with Roḍiyās, 216

Cat, and leopard, 427; and tiger, 428; given in return for presents, 333; greatest animal, 427; holds lamp or springs for wager, 138–141; hung over cooking pan, 202

Caterpillar boy weds Princess, 406

Celestial flowers, search for, 346–349, 353, 354, 357–360

Chain, magical, 354; shaken for bad or good luck, 199

Charmed articles for protection:—branch, 322, horn, 43, oil, 313, sand, 312, 318, 321, 326, stones, 327, thread, 318

Charming thread for evil dream, 207; for sickness, 204

Chena cultivation, 8, 10, 74, 109, 175, 178, 192, 193, 204, 207; lucky hour for beginning, 192

Child carried off by eagle, 331; jackal, 332

Children created, 28, 29, 31; set afloat in baskets or boxes, 251, 283, 285

Chuṛel (ghost of woman who died in child-birth) killed, 170

Citronella garden set on fire, 109

City, invested by enemy, 51, 173, 232, 233, 411; of Awulpura, Handi, Upaddā, 142; of Ibbāwa, 411, 412; of Kandy, 3, 177, 178; of Tāmbraparnni Island, 69; which Rākshasa eats, 217

Clods or stones put in bag, 271, 274; silver colour of clods an omen, 48

Cobra (or Nāga), and Prince, 414; bite, 42, cured by Vaeddā, 58; drinking milk, 414, 416; grants power to understand animals’ speech, 415, 416; killed, 14; kills man, 330; kills Princess, 42; pairing with rat-snake, 414, 416; shot, 158; thousand hoods of, 343

Cobra stone, brilliance, 14, 15, 21; death of cobra on losing it, 21; dries and fills well, 14, 16; inscribed, 14; set in ring, 15, 129

Cock, and dog, 420; and hens, 419; cock, cat, or child hung over cooking-pot, 202, 203

Coins:—Dīnārs, 233; gold, 233; Knox and Baldaeus on, 213; masu (pl. of massa), 136; masurama, 11, 13, 25, 131, 133, 137, 221, 222, 232, 356, 357, 435; muhr, 94, 438; pagoda (warāgan), 438; paṇama, 70, 71, 186; pice, 75, 355; pound, 228; pretended coins, 258, 259, 356; ridī or larin, 213; rupee, 75, 94, 213; salliya, 116, 117; shilling, 101; tuṭṭuwa, 70, 71

Compact of K. and Minister, 345; K. and turtle K., 411, 412; two thieves, 93; Yakā and man, 288, 289

Cookery by Princess or Q., 39, 58, 60, 61, 77, 88, 91, 116, 177, 180, 185, 187, 188, 193, 196, 199, 202, 206–208, 210, 213

Collar-bone relic of Buddha, test of, 32

Condemned persons allowed choice of food, 26

Corn-store, 162, 163, 183, 187, 215, 216

Corpse, or grave-digger’s tools inauspicious, 74; of K. buried, 55, cremated, 225; tormented for debt, 131

Cotton, cleaning, 195; cultivation, 107; law-suit over, 107, 108; spinning, 195, 197, 332; spinning implements, 195–197

Courtesan, and Brāhmaṇa, 438; and merchant, 439; assisted by cat when gambling, 138, 139, 141

Cow-dung cures burns, 219; heated, poured down throat, 49

Cow, gold-dropping, 103

Creation of things thought of, 234, 235, 237–240, 349, 360

Creditors cheated and drowned, 117–119

Cremation of K., 225; nobleman and wife, 331; villager, 63, 88, 94, 95, 294

Crocodile guards lotus pool, 312, 329; married girl, 408; removable skin of man, 408

Crow, and darter, 442; and parrot, 440; assists girl, 5; fat cures poisoned wound, 6; takes message, 391

Crown, 59, 133, 308, 314, 315, 380

Crows, and owls, 443, 444; cook cakes, 275; language learnt, 40

Cudgel, magic, 103–106, 117, 348, 353, 354

Cultivation, rice, 178, 179, 182–184; tāwalla, 177

Curse, 43; ineffective, 353; turns Apsaras, Prince or woman to ashes or stone, 236, 353, 374, 375

Ḍabukkā and bear, jackal and leopard, 396, 397

Daekun, 231

Dānaya, 160

Dancing, 81, 86, 202, 205

Danuddara Paṇḍitayō, 232

Darter and crow, 442

Daṭṭa kalā, 330

Dāwal tissē, 130, 131

Dawasakdā, 210

Dead, man, reborn as fish which saves Prince, 131, 135; revived:—girls, 38, 42, lion, 43, 44, man or youth, 44, 45, 379, Prince, 143, 169–171, Princess, 30, 43; said to be revived by beating or stabbing, 119, 120

Death, feigned to avoid sharing food or money, 93–95; foretold, 73–75; how it occurs, 89; on eating after demon offering is cooked, 208; sentence on Prince, 13, 26, 30, 40, 131, 309, 320, 324, 337; Princess, 283; through sword’s burning or rusting, 169–171

Debtor cheats and drowns creditors, 117–119

Deities, intervention of, 30; protect Q., 370, 372, 373

Deity assists Prince, 359

Demon, afraid of woman, 288, 291; cannot eat persons awake, 369; causes sickness, 204, 208; compact with man, 288, 291; dancing ceremony for sickness due to, 205; frightened by men, 260, 261; gifts not to be revealed, 294, 295; offering to, 89, 208; out of melon, 104; “possessed” women, 288–290; saved upāsaka, 329; thread worn for sickness caused by, 204

Deposition of K., 20, 86, 307, 314, 329, 338, 412

Devallī, Princess, 283

Dēvatāwā, afraid of man, 101–103; assists man or woman, 234, 235, 331, 347–349; attends Baṇa reading, 124; gives magic articles:—bag, 349, cudgel, 103, gold-dropping cow, 103, lute, 349, plate, 101, ring, 102, pills, 234, 235; guards gems, 303; Kaḍawara, ceremony for disease caused by, 204, 205; in tree, 101–103, 234, 331; personated by tom-tom beater, 296, 297; sleeps, one, two or three months, 347; termed Yakā, 102

Dēvī, Princess, story of, 184

Devil-dancer, 204, 205, 266, 268; dancing, 205

Diadem, gem-set, 306

Dīnārs, 136, 233

Disputes:—man and wife, over cakes or sweetmeats, 61, 63, eating muffins, 62, shutting door, 63; regarding ownership or sovereignty, five animals, 45, four persons, 36, 38, three persons, 44

Diṭuwā, 252

Doctors killed when unsuccessful, 382–384

Dog or cat sets fire to cotton, 107

Donations not given while sitting, 244, 245

Dream of eating, a bad omen, 207; omens in, 48

Dress, of Heṭṭiyās, 11; set with gems, 306

Drowning, treatment for, 223

Durgā gave magic pots, 104; saved Prince, 171

Dust, rice, cooked, 116; paddy, cooked, 187

Dwarf demons, 170, 171, 256; human, 247, 256

Eagle carries off infant, 331

Earth touches sky, 173

Egg shot, in bird’s nest, 37, 38; under winnowing tray, 35; stolen from under bird, 35, 38, 41, 44, 87

Eight asses, 396; brothers, 142; nelli fruits, 121

Elephant carried by keeper, 97; eaten by two lice, 97; golden, 235; killed by bird, 445–448; selects K., 49, 52, 59, 155, 225, 315, 329; statue carries K., 396; white, 317

Elopement, 27, 30, 31, 154, 156, 161

Enchanted articles:—chank shell, 360, golden chair, 356, 357, lamp, 356, 357, thread, 204

Ē pārama, 9

Escape while carried on bed, 372

Ēt, 165, 378

Execution, customs at, 26; in cemetery, 27; in forest or jungle, 199, 217, 309, 324; tom-tom, 26

Executioner smears blood on sword or billhook, 199, 217, 310, 318, 324

Eyes pressed as filial act, 19

Fate, belief in, 55, 160

Fathom, 102, 168

Feather dress of fairies, 353, 354

Fifty blows, 81, 84; cakes, 208; coconuts, 64

Figure, flour, offering to, 210; of elephant made, 221; personated by man, 211; weeps, 375; wooden, endowed with life, 43, 44

Finger-nails, food carried under, 269; or thumb, milk from, 365, 366; poisonous, 4

Fire brought from heaven, 45; kills Rākshasī, 373

Fish, eating fat and flesh cures illness, 362, 363; speaks and saves Prince, 135, 136

Fishing, 168, 223, 362; with hook, 39, 163, 249

Five, animals, 45; beggars, 93; brothers and sisters, 256; cakes, 105; cities, 37; days, 422; friends, 44; horses, 439; muffins, 62; musical instruments, 30, 48, 52; nymphs, 353; quarts, 177; sciences, 37; sons, 36; sweetmeats, 61

Five hundred, dīnārs, 233; leagues, 30; masuran, 25, 131, 221, 222, 417, 435; monkeys, 417, 418; Princesses, 315; sons, 317

Flight through air, 20–24, 26, 27, 42, 125, 129, 349, 353, 354

Floating basket or box containing girl, 151, 283, 284; leopard, 281; monkey, 283, 284; Prince, 284, 285; tiger, 283

Flogging to extract confession, 100

Flood caused by sea gods, 283

Flour figure, offering to, 210, 211

Flower garlands, 325, 361

Flowers, celestial, of Apsarases, 357, 359, 360; of Sun maidens, 346–349; rain of, 212

Flying machines:—basket, 392; bed, 30, 355; car, 21, 22, 43; Garuḍa, 31; horse, 22, 30, 44; palankin, 22, 171; peacock, 18–21, 23, 24, 26, 27; robe, 358; sandals or shoes, 104, 105; stool, 360; swing, 31

Fold, cattle, 250, 393

Food carried under finger nail, 269; vessels, 143

Foolish, barterer, 64; K., 66; man, 57, 60; thief, 76; youth and thieves, 71, cuts plough, 72, his death predicted, 73–75; weavers 75, 79

Four, Brāhmaṇas, 42, 43; brothers and sisters, 247; friends, 107, 108; gawuwas, 23; giants, 162; magical articles, 101–103, 105, 106; men, 43, 44; pairs of robes, 316; persons, 114, 115; Princes, 33; rats, 320; sallis, 117; sciences, 42; sons, 45; streets, 52; wives, 318

Four-faced K. and turtles, 411–413; son married tortoise, 413

Four hundred gold coins, 233; masuran, 131

Fox can take human shape, 392; strangled by ass, 400

Friends, four, share dog, 107; two, 101

Frog, effect of venom of, 344; in Q.’s nose, 382–384; is a snake, 344; marries man, 410

Frying family honour, 62; lineage, 60

Funeral, feast to release spirit, 188; mound, 225; pyre, 294, 331, sham, to deceive Rākshasī, 373

Gama-gǣni, 251

Gama-mahagē, 4, 280, 364, 365; finger nails poison K., 4

Gama-rāhami, 262–265, 298

Gamarāla, and cock, 419; and servant, 189; and tom-tom beater, 257 ff., 265, 296–298; cattle fold, 393; cattle of, 248, 250, 251; condition for daughter’s marriage, 181; eats porridge of paddy dust or rice dust, 187, 258, 262; frightens Rākshasas, 260, 265; his child and Rākshasī, 276 ff.; his dog, 192; quarrel with wife, 182; seven daughters, 46; seven sons, 276; son imprisoned in tree, 377–379; understands language of animals, 419

Gamarāla’s daughter cures K., 6; marries K., 6, 9, 281, 377; rears snail Prince, 365, 366; saves her father, 8; set afloat in river, 280 ff.; carried in sack, 298

Gamarāla’s son-in-law, 57; becomes K., 49, 59; bitten by cobra, 58; scalds and cheats Gamarāla, 184, 189

Gambler, assisted by cat, 138–141; losing, becomes slave, 138, 141; uses magical articles, 356, 357

Gambling, 116, 117, 138, 139, 141, 357

Gampolayā and Raehigamayā cheat each other, 90 ff.

Gāndarvayā or gāndargayā = astrologer, 112, 113

Gaṇēśa, 129

Garā Yakā, 80

Gardener employs Prince, 128; made K., 55, 56; ordered to shoot thieves, 55, 56

Garments of bathing fairies or nymphs hidden, 347, 348, 353, 354

Garuḍa, artificial, 31

Gawuwa or gawwa, 14, 23, 327

Gem, digging, 98; ejected by snakes, 14, 228, 229; from saliva of Yaksanī, 303, 306; guarded by Dēvatāwā or Yakā, 303; rain, 303; set on hat, 11; Yaksanī, 299 ff., her brilliance, 302

Giant becomes K., 169, 173; deeds, 162, 163; defeats army, 173; eats seven quarts of rice, 177; kills fish, leopard, lion, mad K., 164–167; life index flower and tree, 165–167; life in sword, 168, 169; works, 172–176

Giants, four, story of, 162–168

Gifts, magic, 102–106, 348, 349, 353, 354; of demon or Yakā not to be divulged, 294, 295

Girl, abduction of, 224; and K., 9–12; and mouse, 428; and rats, 429; beauty described, 302; brilliance of, 302; escapes into rock house, 370; in bag, 279, 298; in calabash, 319; made flying basket, 392; marries:—Caṇḍāla, 428, crocodile, 408, greatest person, 429, K., 6, 9, 11, 12, 69, 318, 319, 371, 372, leopard or tiger, 389, 391, python, 401, snake, 344, 405; puberty custom, 280; set afloat in basket or box, 281–284

Goat Princess, 326

Golden hair of Princess, 170

Gourd Prince, was Śakra, 361–363

Gourds, persons appear out of, 363; put in pots, 10, 12

Guardian deities, 30, 372; figures and reliefs have soul or spirit, 375, 376

Habalossā creeper, 93, 399

Hair of Princess, golden, 170; long, 168

Hand, measure of length, 168

Handkerchief embroidered by Princess, 133

Han̆dun kiri-paen, 141

Hanging, 337, 338, 339

Hansa-dwīpa, 129

Hare cheats fox, hyæna and wolf, 398, 400; induces lion or tiger to spring into well, 386, 387

Hat, jewelled, made by girl, 11

Heaven, journeys to, 304, 307, 329

Hero kills leopard, lion, mad K., 166–169; sent for blue-lotus, 311, 312, 321, 326, 329; honey of royal bee-hive, 321, 322, 327, 328; visits dēvalōka, 304–307, 329, nāgalōka, 312, 313, paralowa, 328, 329

Heṭṭiyā or Heṭṭirāla, 11, 116, 251; abducts girl, 224; beaten or flogged, 100, 104; beheaded, 225; cheats others, 99, 102–104; Princess, 139; steals magic articles, 102, 103

Heṭṭiyās, three, their gem digging, 98–100

Hiṭi Ban̆ḍāra, deified chief, 180

Hiṭihāmi, giant, 175 ff.; his food, 177, 178, 180; kills wrestler, 187; reaps field, 178; pulls out horns of buffalo, 179

Hobbancōḍi, 61

Honey of royal hive sent for, 321, 322, 327, 328

Honorific address in third person, 5, 6, 20, 67, 81, 144, 147, 215

Horoscope, 237

Horse, flying, 22, 30, 44; fires citronella, 109; silver, 235; swift, 303; turned into stone, 374

House = room, 367; beneath water, 14, 21, 22

Hunchback tale, 226

Hundred cattle, 248, copper pots, 10, dīnārs, 233, elephants, 97, gourds, 10, pagodas (= warāgan), 438; thousand masuran, 131, 133

Hunting episode, disguised Prince supplies fish or game, 351, 353, 355, 362

Hyæna cheated by hare, 398; finds magic pot and cutlas, 106

Ibbāwa city, 411, 412

Idiots, story of twenty-five, 62, 74

Impalement, 49

Impurity, ceremonial, 28, 258, 363

Inauspicious, meeting beggar, 380; corpse, or grave-diggers’ tools, 74

Indra, 226, 236, 318, 353

Inexhaustible articles:—bag, 104–106, 349, 354, 355; basket, 354; bowl, 355; box, 105, 354; cow, 104; cups, 104; drum, 106; food vessel, 105; goblet, 106; horns, 355; jar, 105; plate, 101; pot, 104–106; purse, 353; rice measure, 105; wallet, 360

Inscribed cobra stone, 14

Invisible silk robe, 66 ff.; thread, 69

Iron refuse becomes good iron, 46

Jackal, and Ḍabukkā, 397; and leopard, 394; carried off infant, 332; gave magic cow, 104; gave magic melon, 104; induced lion to spring into well, 386; or dog dropped meat to catch reflection or fish, 148–150; was disguised raja, 104; was Śakra, 149

Jacket, shell or skin, removable, 347, 352, 353, 355, 404–406, 408, 410

Jewelled ring, 15, 27, 125; bracelets, 302

Jewels ejected by serpents, 14, 228, 229

Jīvaka, physician, 319

Journey to dēvalōka, 304–307, 329; nāgalōka, 313, 314; paralowa, 329

Kabaragoyā married Princess, 407

Kaḍappuliyā, 383

Kaelaṇiya K. sets daughter afloat on sea, 284

Kalāsan, 19

Kalpa, 311, 319, 324

Kandy, 177, 178; legend of, 3

Kankāriya, devil-dance, 205, 294

Kanniyā-striyō, Sun Maidens (Sūriya-kāntāwō), 347

Karṇa, story of, 285

Kayiya, 179

Kettle for drinking, 216

Khālidān, Is., 128

King, 237; abducts Princess, 168–170; and golden peacock, 422–424; appoints supervisor of shipping, 127; at royal feast, 224; beaten, 84; beats Q., 418; beheads Heṭṭiyās, 225; cannibal, 167; carried by brick elephant, 376; cheated, 66–68, 189; corpse burnt, mound raised over ashes, 225; declared he saw God, 69; dispute over deer, 155; finds and marries girl of rock house, 371; four-faced, 411–413; frightened by two men, 257; gives sovereignty to Crown and Sword, 314, to son, 36; gives three tasks to Gamarāla, 6; goes to fish daily, 39; killed, 167, 169, 170; killed in flying machine, 20, in tunnel or well, 307, 314, 329; knew language of animals, 417, 418; mad, 167; marries Gamarāla’s daughter, 6, 9, girl, 11, 12, 69, girl found in forest, 377, girl out of flower, 318, 319, man’s bride, 298; necessary for burning K.’s corpse, 225; personated by thief and arrested, 84, 86; plunders people, 320, 323; poverty-stricken, 50, 315, 318; questions sons regarding works, 309, 318, 323, 324; rears Snail Prince, 365; relates parable, 55; rides naked round city, 68; rewards given by, 6, 16, 21, 36, 52, 59, 114, 123, 133, 165–170, 173, 243, 384; selected by elephant, 49, 52, 59, 155, 225, 315, 329; sells children, 131; sends for starving parents, 316; sends Prince for blue lotus, 311, 312, 321, 326, for gem, 302, for honey, 321, 322, 327, 328; sentences Minister to death, 135, 137, Prince, 13, 26, 30, 131, 309, 318, 320, 324, 337; sets daughter afloat in basket or box, 150, 283, 284; shoots Asura, 171; shoots at thieves, 29; shot by gardener, 55; steals magic articles, 104–106; tries law-suit, 99, 110, 112, 155; Vaeddā appointed K., 161, villager appointed K., 49; wager with Q., 299; writes verse, 381

Kissing, 335, 353

Kitten, Brāhmaṇa’s, 425 ff.

Knots, nine tied, 204, 355

Knox, Capt., on coins, 213

Kokka, magic wallet, 349, 351

Koṭiyō-boṭiyō, 393

Kṛiśa-Gautamī, story of, 332

Kulēbakā flowers, journey for, 357, 358; cure blindness, 359

Kulupottā, 3

Kuntī, story of, 284

Lamō, children, 276

Language of animals understood, 43, 415–419

Lapwing story, 212, 214

Larin, 213. See Appendix, vol. iii.

Lark and elephant, 445–448

Lawsuits or legal claims, 20, 36, 38, 43–45, 71, 99, 107–109, 110, 155

Leaf cup, 208; plate, 62, 143

Leopard, and boṭiyā, 393, 394; and cat, 427, 428; and ḍabukkā, 396; and Princess, 388; foolish, 393, 394; killed, 283, 390, 394; kills monk, 282, washerman, 140; marries Princess, 389; put in floating box, 281; strangled by calf, 399

Letter sent by K., 7, Princess, 154, Paṇḍitayā, 232, teacher, 152

Liars, story of, 96

Lice eat elephants, 97

Life in hand, 171; in sword, 168–171; restored or given, 38, 42–45; restored when sword was polished, 169–171

Life-index, 44; barley plants, 170; blue-lotus flower, 165–167, 169; lime tree, 165–167, 169; plants and trees, 165–169

Lime tree as life-index, 165–167, 169

Limits of Rākshasī’s power, 241

Lineage fried, 60

Lion, killed, 166, 170, 231; kills people, 160; life restored to, 43; springs at reflection, 386, 387

Lion throne, 55

Liver, human, eating, 211

Loku-Appuhāmi, story of, 116; cheats and drowns creditors, 117

Lotus flower, blue, a life-index, 165–167, 169; comes into hand, 321; five coloured, 329; girl’s eyes like, 302; girl or Princess out of, 312, 319, 326; golden, 319, 329; guarded by crocodile, 329; pink, 319; required by Princesses, 341, 344; sent for, 311, 312, 321, 326

Louis XI. gives turnip for horse, 333

Lute, magic, attracts animals, 221, 222; summons person required, 349–352

Madahapola, P. B., story by, 124

Madman, 167, 154, 156

Maehiyallē-gama, 142

Magic, 212; burning for, 62. Articles:—ball to protect crop, 179; basket, 392; bed, 30, 355; blood, 374; branch, 322; bread or cake tree, 270, 274; bullet, 433; car, 21, 43; city, 318; cobra’s gem, 14, 15, 21; cudgel, 103, 348; cups, 236; diamond, 170; flower, 359; guitar, 243, 354; horse, 30; lute or flute, 221, 222, 349–352; oil, 313; oil vessel, 359; pills, 234–236; powder, 434; power of Bonga, 416, of cobra or Nāga, 342–344, 415, 416, of Rākshasa, 237–240, 242, 245; ring, 102, 129; robe, 358; sacrificial butter, 366; sand, 312, 313, 321, 326; spells, 242, 243, 342, 343; walking-stick, 245; stones, 327; stool, 360; swing, 31; sword, 171; water, 375; white wand, 359. Found, 106; received:—ambrosia jar, bag, box, copper jar or pot, cows, cudgels, cutlas, drum, food-vessel, fruits, gold goblet, hammer, hat, jewel bag or bowl, melon, pots, plate, purse, rain-bag, rice-measure, ring, ropes, shoes, staff, sticks, 102–106; bags, balsam, basket, bed, box, bowl, cap or hat, chain, cloak, cudgel, guitar, purse, rod (copper or iron), rope, sandals, shoes or slippers, wallet, 348–350, 353–355, 360. Received from ascetic, 360; from demons, fairies, yakshas, 106; from dēvatāwā, 101–103; from Durgā, 104; from jackal, 104; from Kinnarī, 243; from mendicant, 105; from sun, 107; recovered by cudgel, 103–106; stolen, 30, 104, 354, 355, 360

Maha Sōn Yakshayā, 294; rewards tom-tom beater, 294; sits on funeral pyre, 294

Mahattinē, 214

Mal-kāra Ammā, 325, 361

Mallawa wrestler killed, 177, 178; Mālava, 129

Man, and gazelle, 433; and leopard, 140, 281, 282, 393, 394, 396; and mango bird, 430–433; and pigeon, 433; assisted by dēvatāwā, 234; falls while cutting branch, 73–75; killed by cobra K., 330; inside statue, 284; learned, story of, 230; married frog, 410; poor, and woman, 234; rides leopard or tiger, 396, 398; thinks he is dead, 73, 74

Māndhātṛi, Prince, magical birth and rearing, 306

Mango bird, story of, 430–433

Mānikka-ratnē, 15

Mankaḍa, 83, 84

Mariyā or Marirāla, 64, 65

Marksman, 35, 37, 40, 157, 159

Marriage, binna, 15, 46, 57, 86, 144, 127, 135, 165–167, 181, 192, 222, 349, 355, 357, 362, 388; by giving garlands, 21, 283; customs, 8, 18; dissolved for Prince’s ignorance, 37; for wife’s disobedience, 137; mode of tying, 367; of Brāhmaṇa’s kitten, 425–428, of low-caste girl, 428, 429; to frog, 410; to Nāga or snake, 342, 344, 401, 405; to dog, 405; to kabaragoyā, 408; to mouse, 428; to Rākshasī, 265, 268; to crocodile, 408; to tortoise, 413; without consent of parents, 172

Massa, pl. masu, 136

Master, and family cheated by slave, 190; and servant, 191

Masurama, pl. masuran, 11, 13, 25, 131, 133, 137, 221, 222, 232, 256, 356, 357, 435; see Appendix

Medical treatment:—for action of magic, 62; blindness, 145, 359; burns, 219; drowning, 223; frog in nose, 382–384; love sickness, 126, 129; poisoning, 6; revival of dead, 43–45, 117, 120, 142, 169–171; sickness due to vexation, 362; snake-bite, 58; thorn in foot, 5, 6

Melons or gourds put in pots, 10, 12

Men frighten bhūtas, 261, 290, demon, 291, K., 257, Rākshasa, 255–257, 260, 268, 290, tigers, 257, 261, Yakā, 290, 293; take animal forms, 392

Message by signals, 24, 31, 32; shot on arrow, 232, 233

Middle room of seven, 34, 35

Mī-flower Princess, 309–317, 327, 328

Milk issues from finger or thumb, 365, 366; mother’s, falls on Prince’s face, 317

Millions (kōṭigaṇan) of masuran, 133; ten million lakhs, 411

Minissa, 121

Minister, beheaded, 135, 307; hanged, 337; killed by Princess, 136; kills infant Prince, 154; listens to conversation of prisoners, 113; split in two, 156; throws Prince into sea, 134; tries to abduct Q., 153

Misfortunes of Kṛiśa-Gautamī, 330–332; of old man, 219, 220

Mitchell, Dr. Chalmers, on cobras’ milk drinking, 416

Mitta-Sēna, K., rode on brick elephant, 376

Mok, mok, cry of cattle drovers, 119

Money:—Dīnārs, 233; gold pieces, 233; Knox and Baldaeus on, 213; massa, pl. masu, 136; masurama, 11, 13, 25, 131, 133, 137, 221, 222, 232, 356, 357, 435; muhr, 94, 438; pagoda (warāgan), 438; paṇama, 70, 71, 186; pice, 75, 355; pound, 228; pretended money, 258, 259, 356; ridī or larin, 213; rupee, 75, 94, 213; salliya, 116, 117; shilling, 101; tuṭṭuwa, 70, 71

Monk, and Marirāla, 65; explains naekata falsely, 280; killed by leopard, 282; predicts fall and death of branch cutter, 72, 74; thought himself dead, 74

Monkey, and girl beaten in bag, 216; beats wife, 418; put in floating box, 283, 284; steals necklace, 111; story of, 417

Moon-rays Prince, 378

Mouse-deer induces tiger to spring at reflection, 387

Mudalāli, wealthy shop-keeper, 70

Muhr (mohur), 94, 438

Mukkāḍuwa, face veil, 153

Musical instruments, five, 30, 48, 49, 52

Naekata, 151, 192, 193, 280, 298

Nā-flower Princess, 309–317

Nāga emits poisonous smoke, 343; gives power to understand all sounds, 415, 418, death for divulging it, 418; K., Dataraṭṭha, 344, Mahakela or Mahākāla, 340; Princess as frog, 344; sends to earth for Princess, 340, 342, 344

Nāgalōka, journey to, 313, 314

Nahakoṭā endeavours to marry sister, 201; his wedding feast, 201–203

Nākayi, 306

Needlework, girl learns, 11; Princess’s, 133, 136

Nelli fruit, decoction of, 121

Netting animals, 168, 202, 343, 404

New Speech, story of, 181

New Year, journey for palm sugar, 64

Night of Power, 236

Nilamē, 36, 83

Nine knots on charmed thread, 204; on nose, 355

Nobleman’s daughter’s misfortunes, 330 ff.

Oath, 89, 348, 358

Offering:—Princess to sea-gods, 284; to demon, 208; to flour figure, 210; to Yakā or tree spirit, 209

Oil on head, as charm, 197

Oil vessel, magical, 359

Omens, 42; appearance of lion, 46; bee-hive on yoke of plough, 48; cry of house lizard, 42; eating in dream, 207; iron refuse becomes good iron, 46; maggots falling on toe, 48; meeting beggar, 380; plough-clods being silvery, 48; noise of procession, 48

Owls and crows, 443, 444

Pagoda (= warāgan), 438

Palace under water, 15, 21, 22, 170

Pallēm, 322

Paṇama, 70, 186, 213

Pañcāla K. and parrot, 439

Parable, 55

Paralowa, journey to, 329

Paramour, 206, 208–211, 382–384

Parangi disease, 198

Parrot, and crow, 440; and K., 439; and woman, 436–438; decides claim or lawsuit, 44, 435, 436, 438; imitates voice of Buddha or deity, 437–439; inside statue, 436–439

Parturition house, 27, 330, 372

Pāṭalīputra, legend of, 283, 319

Pattinī, goddess, legend of, 283, 289

Peacock, golden, 421; feather brings victory, 423; receives half the kingdom, 423; safety through spell, 421, 423; rude, 442

Peacock, wooden flying, or car, 18–24, 26, 27, 31

Pearl necklace, story of, 111, 115

Peraeli-bāsa, 273, 274

Petrifaction, by Apsaras or Indra’s daughter, 246; by jōgī or Rākshasa, 245; by prophet or Allah, 376; by sage, 375; on looking back, 246, 369, 374, 375

Petrified persons revived, 245, 246, 374, 375; soul continues in them, 245, 375

Pewuni, 214

Pice, 75, 355

Pigs, domestic, 160

Pinkama, 188

Pitfall, hidden, 391, 392

Planetary influences driven off, 298

Plate fragments as money, 258, 259, 356

Pollution, by associating with Roḍiyās, 216; of food, 258

Polyandry, none

Polygamy, 128, 239, 310–312, 318, 320, 326–328, 352, 358

Pool guarded by crocodile, 312, 329

Porōga, 322

Porridge of paddy dust or rice dust, 116, 187, 252, 258, 262, 266

Portents:—Appearance of lion, 46; bee-hive on yoke of plough, 48; cry of house lizard, 42; eating in dream, 207; iron refuse becoming good iron, 46; maggots falling on toe, 48; meeting beggar, 380; plough-clods being silvery, 48; noise of procession, 48

Portrait of Princess, 334–336

Postponement is a refusal, 47

Pound, 228

Prākshasa, 247 ff., 393

Prediction, 11, 14, 24, 46, 48, 73–75, 81, 86, 151, 280, 283, 297, 298, 315, 415, 423, 437

Pregnancy longings, 388

Prime Minister, 233, 317

Prince, and carpenter’s son, 13 ff.; and Yakās, 357, 358; appoints himself K., 307; avoids school, 130; becomes K., 128, 366, labourer, 34, 40, 51, 128, 132, Minister, 221, slave, 138, thief, 33, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 83, 86, 87; born from snail shell, 365; brings honey of royal hive, 321, 322, 327, 328, lotus flowers, 311, 312, 319, 321, 326, 329; cannibal, 196; carried on bed by Gaṇas, 129; concealed inside lamp stand, 25; dead, revived, 143, 169–171; deceives and kills K., 306, 307, 329; drinks milk from finger, 366; fights, 52, 147; finds palace and Princess in well, 15, 21; gambles, 138, 357; goes for gem, 302; goes on trading journey, 138; hides robes of bathing nymphs or fairy, 353, 354; his humble friends, 23, 169, 170; hunting episode, 350–355; ignorance of, 13, 33, 130; imprisoned for insanity, 129, not marrying, 129; imprisons wife, 81, 86; killed by Vaeddā, 148, by Yaksha, 171; kills Chuṛel, 170, Jinn, 170, raja, 170, Rākshasa, 170; K.’s plot to kill, 304; kisses sister’s portrait, 334, 335; learns archery, 33, 37, abating poison, 42, carpentry, 34, 40, crows’ language, 40, reviving dead, 37, 40, 42, rapid travelling, 37, 42, robbery, 40, 41, 44, sciences, 37, 40, 42, soothsaying, 33, 37, 40, 42, trades, 33, 34, 44; life in sword, 169–171; lives with garland-maker, 325, washermen, 132, widow, 311, 320, 334; loses Princess’s talisman, 127; makes figure of elephant, 221, magic lute, 221; marries girl out of basket, 283, Princess, 128, 144, 222, teacher’s daughter, 146, tortoise, 413, Yaksanī, 303; obtains cobra stone, 14, Kulēbakā flowers, 357–359, Sūran̆ganā flowers, 357–360; offers stone for cakes, 300, 301; plants vegetable garden, 27; cured by Princess, 6; polygamy (seven wives), 352, s.v.; punished by son, 86; python, 401–404; receives magical articles, 104, 106, 353; receives power to understand speech of animals, 415; selected as K. by elephant, 315, 319; sentenced to death or exile, 13, 26, 30, 131, 309, 318, 320, 324, 337; set afloat in river, 284, 285; seven-mouthed, 195–197; steals magical articles, 104; sword burnt by wife or witch, 170, 171; thrown into water, 134, 308, 355; turned to ashes by curse, 353; turtle brings celestial flowers, 353, 357, 359, 360; unable to learn, 13, 33; visits dēvalōka, 304, Maehiyallē-gama, 142, nāgalōka, 312, 314, Princess, 25, 30, 127, 129; was Śakra, 362, 363; white clothes and horses of, 350, 359; with monkey skin, 355, turtle shell, 353

Princes, branded, 355, 357; go to kill fish in sea, 362; petrified, 374, 375; sell firewood and fruit, 315, 318; rings taken and tongues cut, 352, 362, 363

Princess, abducted, 17, 21, 22, 30, 31, 154, 168–170, 358–360, 385; adopted by Moorman, 153; avenged by son, 84, 86; betrays Prince, 148–150; binna marriage, 127, 135, 144, 165–167, 222, 349, 355, 362, 388; carried on bed, 125, 129; cures Prince, 6; dead, revived, 38, 43; decides law-suit, 156; dies of grief, 391; disguised, rescues Prince, 139; elopes with leopard, 389, with Prince, 27; gains wager, 139–141; goes to school, 151; golden-haired, 170; guards Prince, 134; hair floats away, 168, 170; imprisoned by husband, 81, 86, for insanity, 129; in bee-hive, 327, 328; in flower or fruit, 310, 312, 318, 319, 326; in sub-aqueous palace, 14, 21, 22; killed by cobra, 42, by jackal (Śakra), 149; kills Minister, 136; lives with washermen, 132; Maehiyallē-gama, 142; married to bear, 385, caterpillar boy, 406, gourd, 362, kabaragoyā, 407, Nāga, 342, Princess, 127, Rākshasa, 237, 240, turtle, 346, 349, Vaeddā, 161; needlework of, 133, 136; offers rewards, 221, 222; produced from goat’s mucus or saliva, 320, 325, 326; Rākshasī cannot eat her, 238, 240; refuses to cook buffalo meat, 161; rides on horse, 337; saved by carpenter’s son, 20; saves husband, 140, 141, 304, 305, 311–313, 321, 322, 326–328; selected as K. by elephant, 155; sentenced to death, 283; set afloat in river or sea, 151, 283–285; sings songs, 15; sold, 131, 132, 136, 137; supervisor of shipping, 127; teaches arts and sciences, 127; thrown into well, 145; visited by Prince, 25, 129; woman takes her place, 145

Princesses, dig tunnel, 313; give charmed articles to Prince, 312, 313, 321, 322, 326, 327; seven, 407

Prognostics, 34, 38, 41, 42, 46, 48, 121, 122, 151, 192, 237, 280

Pronouns avoided, 85

Puberty custom, 151, 280, 298

Punishments:—Beheading, 7, 13, 20, 26, 30, 112, 131, 135, 165–167, 225, 303, 307, 309, 320, 335, 344, 382, 383; beating, 84, 86, 112, 190, 205; burning, 339, 344; cooking, 343, 344; cutting down, 6, 20, 33, 169, 170, 324; death, 169–171, 318, 384, 423, 447; drowning, 22, 118, 339, 340, 343, 344; exile, 13, 40; hanging, 20, 337–339; impalement, 49; imprisonment, 21, 72, 79, 81, 86, 128, 129, 356; pouring heated cow-dung down throat, 49; pounding in mortar, 343; servitude, 352; shooting, 29, 55; splitting, 156; splitting head, 195; worried by jackal, 149

Python, animals caught by, 405; man turned into, 405; Prince, 401 ff.

Quartering and hanging at city gates, 20

Queen, 237; abducted by Rākshasa, 34; adopted by Moorman, 153; bears gourd, 361, 363; bears turtle, 353; disguised as Arab man, 155; divorce over wager, 299; escapes by branch when carried on bed, 372, 374; has frog in her nose, 382–384; insulted by beggar, 381; makes offering for child, 361; names sons, 378; necklace stolen, 111; of rock house, story of, 367; protected by gods, 372; pounds paddy, 300; pushed into well, 21; rules country, 141, 155, 156; solves law-suits, 100, 156; speechless through grief, 377, 378; “possessed” by Yakā, 289–291

Queens, seven, 355

Questions asked mentally of soothsayer, 37, 38

Racers cheated, 105, 355

Rāe dawasaṭa, 443; rāe pāndara, 306; rāe tissē, 206

Rāhami, 214, 262–265, 433

Rain, making, 16, 106; of flowers, 212, gems, 303

Raja marries bear, 392; rājayō, 342; raju, 165

Rājabānḍāgārē, 69

Rāksasa-eating Prākshasa, 247–268

Rākshasa, 35, 36, 217, 247; abducts girl, 43, 245, 249, 258, Q., 34, 372; and cake tree, 277; and Princess, 237 ff.; collects donations, 244; creates anything thought of, 237, 240; daughter married to Paddā, 268; eats villagers, 217, 247; frightened by men, 255–257, 260, 265, 268; great house of, 253, 256; guards pool, 329; killed, 169–170; life in bee, 360; marries Princess, 237, 240, woman, 253; magic stick of, 245; mode of approach, 254; petrifies girl, men and bulls, 245; shot, 36; smells men, 259, 264, 268

Rākshasī, abducts boy or girl, 256, 274, 275, 278; and cake tree, 277; deceived by sham funeral pyre, 373; dies of grief, 242; eats brothers and father, 368, villagers and palace residents, 318, 367; frightened by boys, 256; killed, 268, 274, 276, 279; limits of power, 241; marries Brāhmaṇa, 240; teaches spell, 242; unable to eat persons awake, 369, or Princess, 238–240, or stone, 369

Rambhā turned to stone, 375

Raṭēmahatmayā gives kaekiri fruit for bull, 333

Rats, and girl, 429; dig tunnel, 81, 305, 322; produced from goat’s saliva, 320; reared, 81, 304, 305, 320

Rat-snakes put in sack, 272

Reflection in mirror or water as payment, 438, 439; in water deceives animals:—bear, 385, fox, 150, jackal or dog, 148, 149, lion or tiger, 386, 387

Refusal to fell Yakā’s tree, 379

Removable jacket, shell or skin:—caterpillar, 406, chank shell, 355, crocodile, 408, dog, 405, frog, 410, gourd, 362, kabaragoyā, 408, monkey, 355, python, 404, 405, snail shell, 365, snake, 405, turtle shell, 347–353

Return of weapons, 29–31

Rewards by K. or Prince, 6, 16, 21, 36, 52, 59, 114, 123, 127, 133, 165–170, 173, 243, 284; Appointment as Minister, 53, 59, 233; daughter’s hand, 165–167; daughter’s hand and all or half kingdom, 21, 87, 129, 133, 170, 291; elephant’s load of goods and part of kingdom, 16, 19, 243, 358, 384; partial sovereignty, 168, 173, 423; presents, 169; presents and distinctions or wealth, 127, 156; offices, 114; sovereignty, 36, 169; villages and goods, 52; villages, silver and gold, 123

Ribeiro on punishment for theft, 115

Rice and curry become raw, 206; cleaning, 402, 403; cultivation, 162, 176–178, 182, 183, 206

Ridī or larin (coin), 212, 213, 214 (see Appendix, vol. iii.); washerwoman, 214

Ring, brass, 189; cobra stone set in, 15, 17; exchanged, 87, 125, 126, 129; given as reward, 6, 86; given for fish or game, 352, 353, 363; jewelled, 15, 27, 352, 363; magic, 102, 129; proof of message, 304

Rock house or cave, 241, 242, 370, 371, 374, 376

Rodda, cotton bow, 195–197

Roḍiyās, 216

Royal bee-hive, 310, 321, 322, 327, 328; flower in it contained Princess, 310, 327, 328

Royal virtues, ten, 20, 59

Rupee, 75, 94, 213

Rūppaya or rūppē, 33, 34

Sack, boy carried in, 271–275, 278; girl in, 279, 297, 298

Sāgara, K., sons of, 365

Śakra, advises wife-beating, 418; as jackal kills Princess, 149; created monkeys, 417; created palace for girl, 318; heaven of, 361, 424; story of, 361, 363

Sale of children, 131, 137

Salliya, 116, 117

Sand-bank rises in sea, 321, 323

Sargon I., story of, 285

Saw (or sawu) saraṇak, 17, 27

Scaffold, 337

School, 13, 23, 50, 130, 146, 151, 269, 276

Seats, grades of, 143

Sen̥kaḍagala, legend of, 3

Seven, ancestors, 68; armies, 232; beds, 401; blows, 216; brothers, 142, 162, 215, 244, 245; brothers petrified, 245; buffalo cows, 177; bundles of firewood, 238; children, 276, 277; cities, 7; cooking pots, 401; curries, 196; daughters, 46, 104, 401; days, 67, 118, 134, 320, 412; days’ leave of absence, 340; fathers, 245; fathoms, 168; giants, 162; girls, 401; handkerchiefs of flowers, 311; hands, 168; houses, 238, 391; kalpas, 324; keys, 34, 35; Kings, 232, 233; Mallawās, 178; mat boxes, 215; men, 7, 66, 298, 383; mice, 139; pāelas of paddy, 238; persons, 118, 178; pots of water, 238; Princes, 39, 388, 413; Princesses, 41, 345; quarts, 177, 196; Queens, 355; rooms, 25; seas, 329; sisters, 215, 244; sons, 318; stanzas, 66; thieves, 76; thousand masuran, 136; tribes of Jinn, 354; Yakās, 292, 293; years, 172, 300, 344, 361; yokes of bulls, 245

Seven-mouthed Prince, 195–197

Shell or skin, removable, 347–353, 355, 362, 365, 404–406, 408, 410

Shell snail, story of, 364; Prince born from it becomes K., 365, 366

Shilling, 101

Shooting, 29, 33, 35–37, 40, 54, 55, 147, 157–159, 161, 171, 232, 233, 284, 355, 433, 441

Sickness caused by demon, 204, 208

Signals convey message, 24, 31, 32

Sirr, H. C., on punishment for theft, 115

Sister ordered to be murdered, 199, 217

Sisters, seven, marry seven brothers, 215; when blind die of starvation, 218

Sītā, story of, 31

Siṭāna, or siṭānō, 36, 116, 323, 330; adopts frog as daughter, 409; orders son to be killed, 324; treasurer, 112

Siṭi, 116

Six persons, 44, 178, 179; Princes and ships, 362

Skinning mosquito, 96

Skin or shell dresses or jackets:—Caterpillar, 406, chank, 355, dog, 405, frog, 410, gourd, 362, kabaragoyā, 408, monkey, 355, python, 404, 405, shell snail, 365, snake, 405, turtle, 347, 352, 353, crocodile, 408

Sky buffalo, 172, 173; sky rests on earth, 173

Slavery of losing gambler, 86, 138, 141

Slipper or boot trick, 94, 95

Smelling the head, 253

Snake, charmer killed by Nāga, 342, 343; five-headed, became man, 344; killed, 217; jewels ejected, 14, 228, 229; married woman, 344, 401, 405

Son born to absent father, 82, 86, 87

Son-in-law cheats Gamarāla, 182 ff.; cuts chena, 193; forgets naekata, 192; kills nephew, 187

Soothsayer, 24, 34, 37, 38, 41; answers mental questions, 37, 38; advice successful, 121–123

Soul in clay, 376; in dead Prince, 376; in petrified persons, 245, 375; in stone or brick figures and reliefs, 375, 376

Sovereignty given to Crown and Sword of State, 314; to gardener, 55; to K., 317, 318; to Minister, 334

Spell, death for revealing, 418; for finding lost articles, 242, 243; for safety, 423; for preventing movement, 342, 343; silence during its action, 238, 239

Spinning cotton, 332; golden wheel, 195, 197; spindles and bow, 195–197

Spitting in disgust, 220, 380, 381

Splitting belly, 187, 413

Statue, of Apsaras, 373, Buddha, 284, 438, elephant, 376, guardian deities, 375, people, 374–376; soul in, 375, 376

Story of her life related by mother, 218

Stranger paid high salary, 230, 233

Striking oneself, a mark of despair, 17, 65

Sun god, 346, 347, 425, 428; gives inexhaustible pot, 106; grants boons to turtle, 347; hymn to, 106, 423; protects worshipper, 423

Sun maiden, 347; clothes seized while bathing, 348; gives horse, clothes and sword, 350; gives Sūriya-kāntā flower, 347–349; summoned by magic lute, 349, 350

Sun-rays Prince, 378

Sword, given by sun maiden, 350; life in, 168–171

Talisman carried off by bird, 127, 129

Tamarind seeds fried, 60

Taming buffaloes by Act of Truth, 47

Tampalā, 226

Tasks given, one, 10, 12, three, 8; to Gamarāla:—to build sheds, 8, explain letter, 7, express oil from sand, 8, milk oxen, 8, put gourds into pots, 10, questions to be answered, 9, 10; to Princes:—to bring blue-lotus flowers, 311, 321, 326, honey of royal hive, 321, 327; to learn sciences, 33, 37; to remove earth from well, 322, 328; to shoot egg in nest or hidden, 35, 37; to steal egg from nest, 35, 38, 41; to tell sooth, 35, 37, 38; to visit nāgalōka, 313, dēvalōka, 304; to Princess:—238, 239; son to be born or well built, 86

Tavalama, 57, 118, 138

Tāwalla cultivation, 176

Teacher predicts misfortune in order to marry girl, 151, 283

Ten royal virtues, 20, 59; shillings, 101; thousand masuran, 137

Theft of necklace falsely admitted, 112

Thief, and leopard, 393, 394; cheats K. and gets him drowned, 120; foolish, 76 ff.; hired to rob, 172; K. made thief, 81; personates K., 84; puts on demon’s dress, 79; shot, 27, 54; steals egg from nest, 38, 41, 44, 87, fowls, 88, from comrade, 91, 94, 95

Thieves fall into well, 79; Princes become, 33, 40, 44; tricks of, 78, 80, 90–95

Third person used for second, 5, 6, 20, 67, 81, 144, 147, 215

Thousand, dīnārs, 136; hoods of cobra, 343; masu, 136; masuran, 11, 13, 25, 131, 137, 232; miles, 159; muhrs, 438; rats, 304; yugas, 324

Thread, charmed, worn for dreams, 207; for sickness, 205

Three brothers, 247, 256, 257; bundles of cord, 100; cakes, 63; children, 23, 385; days, 24, 308, 314; daughters, 405; dēvatāwās, 347; drops of milk, 317; eggs, 35; fishes, 39; handfuls, 327; Heṭṭiyās, 98; Kings, 99; magical articles, 104, 105; men, 44; months, 24, 42, 43, 314, 336; persons, 16; pills, 234–236; pōyas, 314; Princesses, 312, 320; sons, 29, 309, 318, 323; weeks, 304; wishes, 235, 236; wives, 45; years, 24

Tiger, and cat, 428; and dripping, 398; frightened by men, 257, 261; in box, 283, 284; killed by pitfall or boiling water, 391, 392; married girl, 257, 391, 392; springs at reflection, 386, 387

Ṭikapiṭika, hardly anything, 258, little by little, 232 (= ṭika piṭa ṭika)

Tirihan, 117

Tissē de wēlē, 26

Tom-tom beater, and Gamarāla, 257–265, 296, 297; and Yakā, 294; articles bought, 259, 262, 263; frightens Rākshasa, 260, 265; personates dēvatāwā, 296, 297

Tom-tom verse, 265

Torch, 193

Tortures, 20, 26, 49, 100, 156, 316, 355, 357. See Appendix, vol. iii.

Transformation, animals and men, 392; mouse and girl, 428

Tree spirit, 234–236; offering to, 209

Tree uprooted and carried, 97

Trousers, 114, 155

Travellers’ shed (ambalama), 42, 55, 90, 118, 230, 231, 380

Tunnel, 81; dug by K., 304–307, man, 199, Prince, 328, Princesses, 313, rats, 81, 305, 322

Turtle K., a yōjana high, 411; his creative power, 412

Turtle Prince, 345; brings celestial flowers, 346–349, 353; marries Princess, 349; made K., 352; supplies meat to hunters, 351–353

Turtle thrown into river as punishment, 340–344; visits nāgalōka, 340–344

Tuṭṭuwa, 70, 71

Twelve, goats, 96; times, 123; years, 172, 175; yōjanas, 303

Two, birds, 128; cheats, 90, 94, 95; clumps of sugar-cane, 77; liars, 96; lice, 97; magic articles, 104–106; merchants, 94; rats, 81; salliyas, 116; thieves, 94, 95

Unlucky, day, 101; girls, 283

Upper story, 25, 154, 160, 253, 259, 264, 267

Vaeddā, and bride, 157; archers, 147, 157, 158; becomes Adikārama, 59; becomes K., 161; catches golden peacock, 421, 422; cures snake-bite, 58; is King’s hunter, 15; K., 146, 148, 149; marries Princess, 161; shoots cobra, 158, lion, 161

Vedarāla or Vedā, expeller of sickness caused by demons, 204, 205; medical man, 121, 126, 382–384; soothsayer, 121–123

Verse composed by K., 381; repeated by K., 370

Village ruined by entry of persons apparently dead and revived, 63

Villager cremated, 63, 88, 94, 95, 294; buried, 44, 61, 62, 73–75, 93; selected as K. by elephant, 49

Vīra-Bāhu, K., made palace in rock, 374

Visit to dēvalōka, 304, 307; nāgalōka, 312, 314; paralowa, 329

Viyadama, materials for food, 91

Wager, 349; of K. and. Q., 299; man and wife, 61–63; Prince and bride, 11, 81, 86; regarding cat, 138–141; son and father, 86

Wand, magic, 359

Washerman, ass of, 257; killed by leopard, 286; son killed by bear, 298

Watch-hut, 176, 177, 204–207

Wawnna, yarn holder, 195–197

Weapons return to sender, 29–31

Weaver, and Brāhmaṇa, 233; foolish, 75, 79; pretended weavers, 66–69

Well, elephant killed in, 448; dug for killing Prince, 322, 328; house or palace in, 15–21; made by wife, 86; Princess or Q. pushed into, 21, 145; Rākshasī killed or put in, 276, 286; thieves fell into, 79

Wellawaehun sweetmeat, a roll filled with scraped coconut, and fried in ghī, 61

White clothes and horses of Princes, 350, 359; elephant, 317

Wife beaten, 182, 205, 418–420; disguised, 82, 86, 87; imprisoned, 81, 86

Wish at K.’s arrival, 380; on Night of Power, 236; on presenting offerings, 367, 373, 374

Wishes, three, 235

Witch abducts Princess, 170, 171; sucks entrails, 189

Woman, and bear, 287; abducts ascetic’s son and Princess, 16, 18, 21, 168–171; ani formed over body, 235, 236; beats husband, 234, 235; becomes lapwing, 214; becomes Rākshasī while alive, 367–373; buried under straw, 78, 80; burns giant’s sword, 168, 170, 171; cheated, 189; cheats husband, or Rākshasa, 206–210, 212, 213, 254, 256, 259, 264; enters tree, 44; frightens Brahma-Rākshasa, 290, bhūta, 290, demon, 291, Yakā, 288, 292; killed by giants, 169; kills and revives three giants, 164, 165; makes flour figure, 210; offers cakes to Yakā, 208; throws Princess into well, 145; rides horse, 145; petrified, 245, 369, 375; steals fowls, 88; wife of Rākshasa, 264

Women, beaten, 118; seven, marry seven brothers, 215; plot against sister-in-law, 215; when blind die of starvation, 217, 218

Wooden flying car, 21, 22; horse, 22, 30, 44; peacock, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27

Wrestling, 147, 177, 178

Yakā, and tom-tom beater, 294; afraid of man, 292, 293, of woman, 288, 290; cakes offered to, 209; causes sickness, 208; compact with man, 292; driven out of persons, 289, 290; gifts not to be divulged, 294, 295; gives man hidden treasure, 292, 293; imprisons youth in tree, 379; lived in tree, 288; pleased with tom-tom beating, 294; possesses persons who become insane, 288–290, their actions are his, 289

Yakās divide treasure, 292, 293; frightened by men, 293; throw sand or stones, 89

Yaksanī, and youth, 269 ff.; carries off youth in sack, 270–273; creates gems, 303; eats daughter and drinks bowl of blood, 273; killed by youth, 274; married Prince, 307

Yaksa-vedarāla, 288–290; drives out Yakā, 289–290

Youth, and Yaksanī, 269; becomes Rākshasa while alive, 374; creates cake tree, 270; escapes from Yaksanī, 271–273; finds stolen goods, 242, 243; imprisoned inside tree, 377–379; in chank shell, 355; learns spell, 242, 243; makes brothers give him articles, 252, 256; son of Brāhmaṇa and Rākshasī, 241; foolish, 70 ff.

Youths, three, recover sister from Rākshasa, 251–256; two, graze Gamarāla’s cattle, 248, 250

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