Volume 3 — INDEX
Reading edition
Abandoned city, 310
Abduction, of Apsaras, 366; bride, 163; girl, 299, 320; Nāga maiden, 366; Princess, 91, 103, 108, 130, 266, 268, 311, 312, 315, 316, 371, 378; woman, 197
Abuccā, 84, 416
Act of Truth, 63–68
Aḍē, disrespectful, 67; also an exclamation denoting astonishment or interest
Adikār or man kills lion or tiger accidentally, 219; taken by horse among enemy, 370
Ādiśēsha, snake K., gives magic ring, 131
Adultery, death for, 52, 218, 345, 346, 359
Advice bought, 136–140; given, 329
Ǣ final, 413, 414
Æwariyakkā, rogueries of, 149 ff.; sells cloth trees, 150, gold-voiding elephant, 150
Akaragane jungle granted, 161–165; Yakā, 161 ff.
Ala-addīn story, 358
Āli-Shār and Zumurrud, 93
Almsgiving to discover husband, 92, 93
Amuṇa, 19–21, 71, 456, 457
And, conjunction, 415
Andris, H. B. and Co., on coins, 453, 454; measures, 456; tortures, 449; traps, 51
Aniccan̥ dukkhan̥, 19, 64, 65, 68, 71, 75, 159
Animal guards at magic tree or treasure must be fed, 177; of Apsaras, 182
Animal jacket, shell or skin, 121–126, 132, 188, 301, 302, 435, 445
Animals accompany and assist Brāhmaṇa, Prince or youth, 129–135, 296–299, 361, 362; girl, 443; cause Prince’s life to be restored, 298; expression of grief, 298, 299; feign death, 11; ordered to make tank, 259, 260; said to void gold or money, 150, 151; speech, fatal to impart knowledge of, 258, 260; ungrateful to man who saved them:—crocodile, 446; leopard, 447; snake, 447; tiger, 446, 447
Animation suspended, 434
Ants race elephant, 442
Appusiññō, monkey, story of, 243 ff.
Apsaras caught by hiding robe, 366; guarded by animals, 182
Apsarases bathe in pool, 297, 298, 366; restore dead Prince to life, 298
Ārakshāwa, 78
Arrow, magical, 65; maker, 375, 376, 379; shot, thirty years in falling, 49
Arts and sciences learnt, 115, 313, 318, 328, 401, 405, 407
Ascetic cheated by jackal, 386, 387; soul enters dead youth, 410
Ascetics, Brāhmaṇa and demons cheated by women carried in boxes or pot, 118, 119
Āsiyā, 149
Ass, and bull or deer killed in field or garden, 56; stolen while led, 206
Assessors, judicial, powers of, 446
Astrologer gives advice to Prince, 329
Asura, deceived by woman, 119; figure shown as Q.’s child, 152; maidens in underground palace, 358; Maya, 409
Atin, 415
Attar water sprinkled on bridegroom, 394–396
Avicenna on bear cubs, 61
Āyibō, 74
Ayiwandā, story of, 62 ff.; magic power given, 63; obtains tavalama, 68; shoots deer, 65; stops Vedarāla and wedding, 66
Babāsiññō, the beggar, 243 ff.; marries Princess, 246
Baeri-taena, 340
Bahu-Bhūtayā, marries dancing girl, 156; sent for sea-water, 157
Bakarāwatā city, 18–20
Balaellāewa, 155
Bali aerumak, 74
Baṇa recitation, 126, 360, 363–365
Banishment of defeated K., 382, 397; of Princes or sons for attempted abduction, 325, belief in destiny, 392, disobedience, 285, extravagance, 139, false charge, 97, 98, idleness, 127, 265, ignorance, 173, uselessness, 220; of Q. or wife, 152, 197
Barber’s wife’s cunning, 344–346
Barbet, story of, 353
Barrenness, cure or prescription for, 21, 152, 154; spell for, 78
Barter or exchange, cat for ladle, 111; elephant for cloth tree, 150, for water-pot, 110, 111; slaves for hen, 151
Bathing head, 255
Batmasurā, story of, 57 ff.; deceived by Mōhinī, 58–60; learnt spells and chased Śiva, 58; reborn inside Śiva, 60
Beads of necklace become seeds or worms, 405, 408, 409
Bear, assists Brāhmaṇa’s son, 135; fœtal form of young, 61; hair brought, 444; kills Prince, 53; milk brought, 80, 144
Beating wife, 151, 260
Beggar, and monkey, 243 ff.; assisted by snake, 185; cures elephant, 186; gambles with K. and wins sovereignty, 249; married to Princess, 246
Bernier on black fowls, 216
Bhāratas’ government cheated, 446
Bhārunda bird, 443
Billa, demon offering, 79, 345, 346, 355
Binduwa, use of, 417
Binna marriage, 36, 67, 71, 72, 79, 90, 141, 221, 255, 299, 307, 312, 314, 323, 332, 362, 369, 376, 377, 397
Birds killed, 16, 17; vomit pearls, 455; young killed, 13, 15, 94, 97, 98, by Prince, 196
Bitch bears daughters, 102; changed into golden pumpkin or gem-set figure, 103, 105; ill-treated or killed by daughter, 103, 105
Black fowls, 213, 216
Blind man, abandoned by wife, 390; and Heṭṭiyā, 388–391; death sentence, 391
Blindness caused by kissing, 437, by thorns, 443; cured by eating bark, 443, by touch of flower or hand, 139, 437; night blindness, 220–222; pretended, 213–216
Blood, animal’s, smeared on sword to prove death, 97; given to drink, 90, 93
Blue-lotus pool, 85, 307
Boat sails up-stream, 133, 267
Boy, assisted by gryphons, 444, caterpillar, 132, his long hair, 132; cheats Heṭṭiyās, 150, K., 151, relatives, 435; frightens leopard, 448, thieves, 435; in treasure chamber, 357; kills dragon, 443, mosquito on father’s head, 446; learns arts, and women’s subtlety, 115, 116; killed, 406; kills magician, 405, 406; magical transformations, 401–409; marries Princess and becomes K., 405; receives articles, 440; taken as demon offering, 355–357; unable to learn, 400, 401, 406, 408, 409
Boy, fortunate, buys ships, 234–236, 238; sells rice to monsters, 236–238; made Treasurer, 239
Brāhmaṇa, and goat, 205; and mungus, 28; and Rākshasa, 182; and Vidyādhara wife, 362; becomes K., 334; breaks pot of flour or bread, 444; buries corpse, 137; cheated by jackal, 387, by woman kept in pot, 120; cheated or killed by pupil, 407, 408; could not be enriched, 398, 399; kills crane who befriended him, 182; maims Rākshasa, 334; marries courtesan, 198; or man or Prince buys advice, 136–140; or youth avoids death by sending another, 438, 439; prediction of, 51, 193; rides Garuḍa at night, 198; tells story, 52; unable to learn, 334
Brāhmaṇa’s son, assisted by animals, 135; learns women’s wickedness, 116; power of his talisman, 135; rescues and marries Princess, 133; sells gold-voiding horse, 151
Bride, abducted, 163; cheats Rākshasa, 172; price, 313
Bridegroom killed on wedding night, 331, 332, 334
Brilliance of Buddha, 114, heroine, 113, 114, Prince, 114, 254
Buddha as flying horse, 199
Buddhist doctrine regarding Karma, 332, 398
Buffalo made ram, 205
Bug and louse story, 30
Bull, and ass in bean field, 56; and lion kill each other, 22, 23; and mouse-deer, 23; feigns death, 11; heavenly, visits tank, 210, 211; made goat, 200; swallows chank shell, 152
Burial, alive:—children, 84–87, 293, criminals, 98, Rākshasī, 134; of K., 309, nobleman, 137, nobleman’s wife, 241, Prince, 257, 332, villager, 68, 218
Burton, Sir R., on flying horse, 198
Bushel measure, 244, 456, 457
Cage, iron, made, 219
Cakes cooked, 100; on trees, 349, 350; cake tree created, 167
Calf claimed as bull’s, 441
Car, celestial, taken for dying man, 143; flying, 197
Carpenter, 89; makes flying horse, 134, 198, flying peacock, 90; put in stocks, 348; story of, 352, 353
Carpenter’s son, becomes beggar, 91; constructs city, 92; flies on peacock and marries Princess, 90; gives his blood to drink, 90; wife abducted, 91
Cash box, 322, 324
Cat, and jackal, 55; and Prince or youth, 128, 130, 131, 133, 296, 298; false penance of, 447, 448; helps to recover Princess, 130, 131, ring or talisman, 130–135; out of sea, 133
Cattle, bells, wooden, 69; feign death, 11; fold, 62, 63, 65
Cents, 234, 236
Chameleon races elephant, 442
Chank shell, borne by Q., 152, Prince in it, 153; swallowed by bull and shark, 152
Charms to kill Rākshasa, 179; to protect from demons, 227
Chastity index, 436
Cheats cheated, 200 ff.
Chena cultivation, 146, 147, 207, 221, 222
Child-bearing, prescription for, 21; spell for, 78
Children, abandoned, 195, 435, 436; buried alive, 84–87, 293; lost and recovered, 380–383; reared by vultures, 436
Chinese belief in re-animation of corpses, 410
City of Bakarāwatā, 18, 20; Kurupiṭiya, 18; Sulambāwatī, 19; Toṭagamuwa, 21
Clothes growing on trees, 150; cloth trees sold, 150
Club to rejuvenate women, 435
Cobra, and polan̆gā, 26; assists kind Princess, 104, 105; bought by Prince, 127; brings Nāga K., 129; cremated, 332; enemy of polan̆gā, 27, 28; killed, 27, 332, 443; kills bridegroom on wedding night, 332, polan̆gā, 27, unkind Princess, 104, 105; “Sending,” 177; sucks poison from wound, 27; was man in former life, 332
Cock and K., 258; predicts K.’s death, 258
Coconut-shell water vessel, 79–81
Coffin, 134, 257
Coins:—Anna, 444; cent, 234–236; dīnār, 215, 320; French, value, 452; gold, 92, 139, 140, 150, 151; gold kahāpaṇa, 263, 454; gold masurama, 386, 387, 453, 454; kahāpaṇa, 450, 454, 455; larin or ridī, 452, 453; massa, double, 454, 455; massa or masurama, 106, 127–129, 136–138, 155, 241, 253–255, 273, 305, 313–315, 328–330, 366, 453, 454; measures for, 244; muhr (mohur), 399, 452; pagoda (warāgan), 131, 408, 455; paṇama, 453, 455; pound, 234, 236, 239, 243, 244, 249, 291, 452; pretended, 240–242; rix-dollar, 453, 455; rupee, 139, 151, 201, 216, 243–245, 408, 444, 452, 455; salliya, 453–455; shāhi, 452; silver, 92, 452–455; tōmān, 452; tuṭṭuwa, 152, 454, 455
Compact, to marry children, 121; with ascetic, 358; with boys’ teacher, 400, 408
Concealment of money or robe inside thigh, 366
Concubine’s false charge, 97, 98; son, 347
Conjunction and, form of, 415, 416; omission of, 416
Copper, ratio to silver, and value, 454
Corpse, drawn through streets or exposed, 42, 45, 46; guarded at night, 139; left at cemetery, 179, 225, 228; gems or money tied at waist, 137, 139, 140; set up as though alive, 214, 216; thrown away, 139, 140; tied on man’s back, 179, 182
Counsellor, 231
Counting incident, ten peasants, 442
Courtesan keeps gambling house, 272; sells losing gambler, 273
Crab, and fishes, 447; and frog, 29
Crane, and tiger’s cultivation, 446; false penance, 447; friend of Rākshasa, 182; or geese carry turtle, 442; rears and weighs girl on tree, 198
Creation, of cake tree by Rākshasa, 167; palace and valuables by cobra, Nāga K. or Sun, 104, 105; palace, 105, 130–135, 437; Princess, 130; raw-rice, 123–125
Cremation, of cobra, 332; friend, 46; raja, 216, 409; woman, 225, 227, 229, 308; youth, 410
Croaking of frogs imitated, 29
Crocodile, and man, 446; cheated by jackal, 448, 449; feigns death, 11; guards Apsarases’ pool, 297; in sea, 443; jacket of man, 445; swallows Prince, 298
Crow, and deer, 5–12; and frog, 442; caw auspicious, 17; drops excreta in K.’s or man’s mouth, 183, 184; finds K.’s ring, 184; killed for gold cap, 17; language learnt, 183; on floating carcase, 442; untrustworthy, 10
Crown, 303, 333, 381, 456
Crown Prince, 98, 381
Cryptic sayings, 112, 114, 344, 345, 446
Cultivation customs, 142, 146, 147, 207
Curry, 385
Curse, 53, 206, 433
Cymbals, 155
Damayantī, story of, 252
Dānaya, given to find husband, 132, 270, 271, 319; given to Gods and poor, 144, 145; Śakra as old man eats it, 145
Dancing, girl, 155, 156, 195, 197; drowned for causing husband’s death, 157; song parodied by tom-tom beater, 156; learnt by Princess, 326
Danḍapola, 155, 156
Darter, a dried-fish trader, 353
Daughter as bait for thief, 46, 47; drowns mother, 224
Daughter-in-law, burnt, 227, 229; deceived by sham money, 240–242; tries to kill mother-in-law, 225–229
Davids, Prof. Rhys, on larin, 453
Davy, Dr., on larin and massa, 453, 454
Dead, notions regarding, 52, 143, 228; revived, 37, 82, 134, 143, 257, 268, 298, 408, 410
Deaf man gives away cattle, 436
Death, feigned, 9–12; of bridegroom on wedding night, 331–334
Death sentence on, blind man, Heṭṭiyā and woman, 391; Minister, 194; Prince, 96, 97, 153, 195, 306, 328, 392, 396, 437; woman, 215
Debt of previous existence paid, 236
Deer, and friends, 5–12; escapes when caught, 7, 9, 11; feigns death, 9, 11, 12; frightens tiger, 441; killed in garden, 56
Deity, destroys city, 311; cheated by Vedarāla, 340, 341, woman, 119, 120; enters bottle or jug, 341, 342; gives Prince turtle shell, 301; prayed to make husband blind, 212, 213, 215; restores sword, 257; splits Śiva open, 60
Demon assists kind girl, punishes unkind, 448; attitude when reclining, 451; carries man in bag, 455; ceremonies, 162, 376, 384; daughter killed and eaten, 455; forms of, 341, 448; killed by tigers, 443; K.’s name, 35; offerings, human, to, 79, 168, 170, 176, 178, 345, 346, 355, 356; shot, 451; slave’s work and revenge, 448
Destiny is all-powerful, 392, 398, 399
Dēvatāwā gives information by dream, 48, 418; in tree, 443; offering to, 212, 213; personated, 213, 215; revives Prince, 298
Devil dance, 162, 384
Dharma, doctrine of, 398, 399
Dice personified, their jealousy, 252
Dikpiṭiyā, story of, 38; elopes with man’s wife, 39; Dippiṭiyās, 40, 155
Diktalādī, 38, 39
Dīnārs, 215, 320
Dīpuwā, 142, 416
Districts of Ceylon, 303
Divorce for greediness, 99; idleness, 146; sterility, 78; pretended custom, 91
Doves saved assist youth, 362
Dream, 48, 160, 416, 417
Duṭṭha-Gāmaṇi, story of death-bed, 143
Dwarf or boy cheats and drowns relatives and frightens thieves, 435
Earnest money, 235
Eating seated, 448
Ēdanḍa, 280, 292
Egret hunts with Prince, 153
Eight, blows, 348; days, 132, 201, 320; months, 305; years, 226
Ejection of boxes or pots containing women, 119, 120
Elephant, as fishing bait, 451; carried by vulture, 81; demanded when dead, 110, 111; from divine world, 208, 210; given for water-pot, 111; gives gold and silver to Princess, 109; guard of Apsaras, 182; killed by Prince, 294, by snake’s breath, 456; kills Rākshasa, 108; man shelters in dead one, 81; milk brought, 79, 80; races ant and chameleon, 442; “Sending,” 177; selects K., 381, 382; snake in head, 185, 186; sold as voiding gold coins, 150; thrown over Seven Seas, 451
Elephant guard, 106–108; finds Princesses in cave, 108, ring, 106; kills Rākshasa, 108
Elopement, 39, 46, 109, 132, 160, 166, 175, 195, 198, 389
Escape of culprits by charging others, 336–338; of condemned prisoners, 345, 346
Euphorbia milk drunk, 138
Exchange of cloths, 174
Fakīr breaks his pot, 440
Fate, 332, 392 ff.; Buddhist and Hindū doctrines of, 398, 399
Father-in-law or master scalded, 73, 75
Feast or food given to find husband, 92, 93; brother-in-law, 252
Feigning death, 9, 11, 12
Fifty dīnārs, 320; larins, 453
Figure, Asura, 152; wax, of Princess, 319
Final vowel shortened before particle, 416
Fire-ball sent to destroy city, 311
Fire cock, jewelled, of Rākshasa stolen, 122–125
Fire flies assist youth, 361, 362
Fish, and crab, 447; and crane, 447; magical, 408, 409; swallows hawk with gourd and people in it, 385, infants, 385, K., 382, ship and people, 385, youth, 299; was river god, 434
Fish curer chosen by elephant as K., 381
Fish-hook, 450; fishing with hook, 38, 451
Fish-owls, marry Princess, 21; search for bride, 18–21
Five brothers, 434; comrades, 134; daughters, 434; elephants, 453; Gamarālas, 166; lies, 352; larins, 453; loads of masuran, 313, 315, lotus flowers, 198; musical instruments, 246; Nāga maidens, 365; pingo loads, 147; weapons, 373
Five hundred, areka nuts, 68; cattle, children, goats, 168, 169; masuran, 137, 255; mice, 447; pounds, 234, 236, 239
Flaying alive, 450
Flogging, 449
Flower mother or woman, 250, 251, 255, 256; burns Prince’s sword, 256; impaled, 257; poisons Prince, 255, 256; was Q., 250, 251
Flower-plant or tree as life index, 35, 78, 81
Flying animals or things:—Asses, 198; bird, wooden, 134; bulls, stone, 199; car, 197; composite animals, 199; deer, 198; horse, 198, 199, wax, 193 ff., wooden, 134, 198; lions, stone, 199; peacock, wooden, 89–91; quadrupeds, 198, 199; sword, 358
Food carried under finger nail, 433
Foolish, Adikār kills lion or tiger, 219; ass owner, 206; boy kills mosquito on father’s head, 446; man leaves buffalo or goat, 205, orders water to stop running, 445, or thief rides on tiger, 456; men claim obeisance, 442; Rākshasa, 174; thief scalds sleeping man, 451
Fortunate boy, becomes Treasurer, 239; buys ships, 234, 236, 238; trades with monsters, 236–238
Fortune from pot of bread, flour or oil, 444
Foundling reared by K., 195
Four bags, 242; branches, 167; cats-eye stones, 177; days, 326; friends, 352; gem-lamps, 177; hours, 451; hundred masuran, 305; lāhas, 21; miles, 396; Ministers, 307; pieces of advice, 136–140; persons, 223; Rākshasas, 166; servants, 304; streets, 42, 186; Śūdras, 205; tasks, 79–81; thousand rupees, 139, 151; tuṭṭu, 152; wives, 444; Paṇḍitayās, 27
Fowls, black, 213, 216; and K., 258
Fox, hare and wolf in larder, 56
Frog, and crab, 29; marries K., 434; washed, 442
Fruit eaten to bear child, 152, 154
Gaja-Bāhu, K., and crow, 183; his ring, 184
Gama-mahagē, buries children alive, 84–87; cheated by husband, 213; journey to heaven, 208, 209; prays for husband’s blindness, 212, 213; sentenced to death, 215; sets up corpse in garden, 214; taken to heaven by Śakra, 87; takes thieves’ booty, 228
Gamarāla, and divine elephant, 207 ff.; and ex-monk, 142; and Hokkā, 292; and tom-tom beater, 457; buries sons alive, 84–87; catches white rat-snake, 48; cheated by jackals, 54, 55, by son-in-law, 72–75, by wife, 217, 218; drives lion away, 219; eaten by Rākshasa, 166; has devil-dance inside gourd fruit, 384; his crop spoilt by rice-mortars, 207; his eight wives, 78; his tasks, 84–87; killed on journey to heaven, 209; kills jackal, 55, 56, paramour, 214; mutilates servant or son-in-law, 71–75; mutilated, 75; personates Dēvatāwā, 213; rears and teaches tom-tom beater, 49–51; scalded, 73, 75; wives elope, 166
Gamarāla’s daughter, and Rākshasa, 457; killed, 75; kills nephew, 74; marries ex-monk, 141; returns to earth after death, 143
Gamarāla’s son, becomes K., 87; catches shark, 82; drowns mother-in-law, 228; escapes from Rākshasa, 82, 83; his four tasks, 79–81; killed and revived by Yaksanī, 81; life index tree, 78; taken as demon offering, 79; taken to heaven, 87; tries to burn mother, 228, 229
Gamarāla’s son-in-law, 71 ff., cuts off Gamarāla’s nose, 75; nose cut off, 71, 72; tasks given, 71
Gambling, 272, 284, 286; K. loses kingdom, 249, 252
Game with oranges or pigeons, 95, 97; ball, 285
Gānē, 209
Gaṇēśa, 42
Garland maker, 250
Garuḍa, tame, in Ceylon, 198
Gāwin, 210
Gē, 49
Gem-set or magic ring of Nāga K. or snake, its powers, 129–134; woman’s, 134
General appoints K., 232; frightens enemy single-handed, 369–372; Yaksha, 35
Genitive case in ǣ or lǣ, 413, 414
Giant (Prince) cures demon illness, 376; fishes with elephant bait, 451; his food, 373; jumps across river or into sky, 373, 375; kills mad crocodile and leopard, 374, Yakā, 377; life in sword, 378, 379; marries Siṭu girl, 377; throws elephant across Seven Seas, 451; wife abducted and recovered, 378, 379
Giju-lihinī (= rukh), 80; milk taken, 81
Gini, geḍiyak, 311; kukuḷā, 122
Girl abducted, 299; and Prince, 112–114; assisted by demon, 448; by Sun, 104; bears 100 eggs, 154; elected as K., 320; her brilliance, 113, 114; her cryptic sayings, 112, 114; needlework, 320; plots to kill brother, 297–299; reared by crane and weighed daily, 198
Goat, and hyæna, 354; eaten by Rākshasa, 169–172; frightens leopard, 440; made dog, 205
Goddess gives Prince magical power and turtle shell, 301
Gods come to dānaya, 144, 145; must become mortals, 398
Gold or gold coins in dung, 150, 151
Golden bed, 312; hair of Princess or heroine, 130, 133, 134, 266; seedling planted, 446
Goḷu-Bayiyā, fetches bride, 158, 159; name changed, 158; goes for deer dreamt of, 160
Gōpalu Dēvatāwā at cattle fold, 62; emblems, 62; gives magic power to youth, 63
Gos, forms of, 417
Gourd, devil-dance inside, 384; swallowed by fish and hawk, 384, 385
Grammar of stories, notes on, 413 ff.
Grateful animals assist men, 131–135
Grief, rolling on ground a mark of, 182, 298, 299, 446
Guards, animal, of Apsaras, 182
Habaka trap, 49, 51
Hāhō, 187
Hair, cuts tree, 443; floats away in water, 130–134, 266; golden, of man or Princess, 130, 133, 134, 266; lengthened by pounding, 455; long, 131–133, 135; line on body, 156
Hanging, 46
Haranṭikā, the thief, 41 ff.; beheads father, 41; falls from tree, 42
Hare, and jackal’s rice eating, 440; and parrot, 3; cuts millet, 187; fox and wolf in larder, 56; eyes shown as Princes’, 96; married to Prince, 187
Hat, three-cornered, story of, 200 ff.; of K. Raja-Sin̥ha, 456
Hatara-maha lūla trap, 48, 49, 51
Hayi-wunā, 68
Head, of slave shaved, 272; to split into pieces, 170, 171; washing, 48, 255
Heaven, journey to, 87, 208, 211
Hero, difficulty of killing, 438, 439
Heṭṭiyā or Heṭṭirāla, 69; and blind man, 388–391; and Sokkā, 457 ff.; advances money for buying ship and trading, 235–239; bride’s adventure, 343–346; buys Prince, 273, 286; cheated by boy or Prince, 150, 273–291; his diarrhœa, 458; refuses profit, 239; shopkeeper gives dāna, 270; wife cheated, 240, 241
Heṭṭiyā’s daughter goes to school, 392; married to Prince, 397; Princess’s friend, 392
Heṭṭiyā’s son avoids school, 89, 230; joins army, 231; made local K., 232, 233
Hidden treasure, 176, 177; lighted lamp in chamber, 357; mode of taking, 169, 170, 177, 178, 355, 357; takers protected by charmed stones, 177
Hills and trees joined and separated by Act of Truth, 63
Himālaya or himālē, 102, 166, 172, 179, 421, 424
Hokkā and Gamarāla, 292; Hokkī, 352
Horikaḍayā, born in chank shell, 153; marries Princess and killed in well, 154
Horoscope, 193, 257, 425, 430
Horse-dung collected on journey, 280, 289, 290, 292
Horse, Minister and Prince, friendship of, 153, 154; flying (wax), 193 ff.; flying (wooden), 134, 198, 199; kept by Rākshasa, 172
Hoṭǣ, 414
House-breaking, 41, 43, 44, 336, 338
Human demon offering, 168, 170, 176, 178, 345, 346, 355, 356
Hundred, acres, 361; bags, 238; carts, 439; feet, 135; lovers, 120; masuran, 305; ounces of silver, 111; pagodas, 131; pieces, 172; Princes, 154; Rākshasas, 434; rings, 120; rupees, 151, 408; seer fishes, 309; Yakās, 377
Hundred thousands, 226
Huṇḍuwa, 456
Hūniyan Yakā, functions, 176; gives treasure, 176, 177; “Sendings” of, 177; visits woman in man’s disguise, 176
Hunting episode, 302, 303
Hurā, 364
Husband displaced by deity, 341; pushed over precipice, 370–372
Hyæna and goat, 354
Identification by ring, 362, 363
Iguana, and lizard, 24; killed by trapper, 25
Impalement, 257, 312, 338, 438, 451
Imprisonment, demon in reed, 341; ghost in phial, 341; Jinni in jar, 342; Mārayā in bottle, 341; Princess, 315, 326
Inability to learn, 300, 328, 329, 334, 400, 401, 406, 408, 409
Infanticide, 84–88, 293
Īśwara, 57–60; īśwara incantation, 58
Jackal, advice to lion, 448; and cat, 55; and deer, 5 ff., 11; and K., 259, 260; and tiger and bear, 456; assists man, 443, 447; causes death of bull and lion or tiger, 22, 23; cheats ascetic, 386, 387, Brāhmaṇa, 387, crocodile, 448, 449, hare, 440, lion, 442, other jackals, 435, wolf, 449; declares excess of females, 259, 260; feigns death, 11; frightens tiger or wolf, 441; gets drunk, 386; heart burst at lion’s roar, 22; killed by cultivator, 9, by Gamarāla, 56, by Vaeddā, 7; must howl, 55, 56; settles law-suit, 441; story of, 353; taken to plough, 54, 55; untrustworthy, 10
Jacket, skin or shell, removable:—bird, crocodile, dog, 445; caterpillar, 132; hare, monkey, 188; mungus, 435; turtle, 121–126, 301, 302
Jātiya-jammē, 245
Jew becomes K., 382; recovers lost children and wife, 383
Jewelled ring, 108, 127 ff., 184
Journey to heaven, 87, 208–211
Kaekuḷu hāl, raw-rice, 123
Kahāpaṇa, 450; golden, 454, cultivation of, 263; = double massa, 454, 455
Kala spells, 307
Kālī, 346; assists K., 197
Kali yuga, 433
Kandeyā, palm-sugar maker, 66
Karagama Dēvī, oath by, 29
Kārkōṭaka, snake K., 252
Karma, doctrine of, 332, 392, 397–399
Katirkāman arrests burglars by spell, 69, 70
King, 31, 92, 93; abandons Q. on journey, 250, 252; abducts Princess, 103, 108, 130, 132–134; adopts Prince, 195, 197; afraid of strange ships, 238; and ascetic find treasure, 358; and beggar gamble, 249; and elephant, 294, 295; and elephant guard, 106–108; and fowls, 258; and girl plot youth’s death, 299; and goat, 260; and golden seedling, 263, 446; and jackal, 259, 260; and Minister, 262–264, 352, 353; and monkey, 243–247; and pretended Yakā, 163–165; and Q., 94; and thieves, 42, 45–47, 215, 336; and sons, 96; and Treasurer, 261, 262; appointed through eating cock’s head, 51, rat-snake’s head, 48; banished, 382, 397; banishes Prince, 127, 139; beaten, imprisoned, and put in stocks, 349–351; beats Q., 260; becomes firewood seller, 397, horsekeeper, 250, 252; beheads Q., 260; bitten by snake, 250; blinded by snake’s venom, 436; buried, 309; buries infant daughters alive, 293; cheated by boy, 151, doctors, 440, Minister, 263, 264, monkey, 243–247, Q., 116, 197, son, 347–351; cremated, 216, 409; death sentence on Minister, 194, Prince, 96, 97, 195, 437; demon K., 35; deposed, 145; divorces Q., 152; drowned, 262, 264, 410, 435; elopes with Princess, 109; finds sister’s husband, 251, 252; flowers stolen, 365; Gamarāla’s son appointed K., 87; gives three tasks before daughter’s wedding, 362, two tasks to son, 335; goes to seize Yakā, 163, 164; grants Akaragane jungle, 165; hears law-suits or trials, 39, 40, 294, 295, 391; killed by potter or smith, 216, by villagers, 309; kills tom-tom beaters, 50, 51; knows animals’ speech, 258; loses kingdom by gambling, 249, 252; mad, 261; marries daughter to beggar, 246, thief, 46, 47; marries frog, 434; necessary for predecessor’s funeral ceremony, 51; orders Minister to invent credible lies, 352; provincial K. appointed, 233; punishes innocent persons, 311, 336–338; rears foundling, 195; recovers lost family, 381–383; returns to be eaten, 172; robbed, 41, 44, 347–351; robs subjects, 261, 311; selected by elephant, 334, 381, 382, by officials, 51; receives magic sword, 358; sends for golden or long-haired Princess, 130–134, Gamarāla to kill lion, 218, turtle for fire-cock, 122; scheme to poison daughter, 294; secludes wives in vain, 120; sets daughter as bait for thief, 46, 47; son killed in place of Brāhmaṇa, 438, 439; swallowed by fish, 382; tom-tom beater appointed K., 48; unable to decide law-suit, 215; woman made K., 93, 320
Kingship, provincial, 233
Kinnarī, and Prince, 362, 363; cremated, 308; death by biting tongue, 308; detains Prince by spells, 307, 308; reborn as infant and plant, 308
Kī-roti, 100
Kissing son causes blindness, 437
Knitting scarves, 314, 315
Knox on cobra and polan̆gā, 28
Kot, hum̆baha, 103; vilakku pānak, 357
Koṭā, aided by grateful animals, 362; cured by Nāga maidens, 365, 366, Princess, 360; discovers thieves, 360, 365; marries Princess, 362; mutilated by brother, 359, 364
Koṭikāpola, 40, 155 (? Polpiṭigama)
Kukkāpiṭiya, 21
Kuluppaḍiyak, 396
Kuruṇiya, 73, 456
Kurupiṭiya city, 18
Lāha or lāhe, 21, 456
Lament, for hire, 214; of animals, 298, 299, man, 446
Lamō, 329
Lamp, standard, containing Prince, 304–306; in treasure chamber, 357
Larin or ridī, value and weight, 452, 453
Lāṭa district, 433
Law-suits, claims, or trials:—Cat and ladle, 111; deaths of men, 138, 139; elephant and waterpot, 110, 111; heard by K., 294, 336; theft of money, 215; thieves, 336–338; wife, 39, 40
Leaf, cup, 132, 133, 161; missive, 231, 232; plate, 67, 69, 433, 440
Leopard accompanies Prince, 296–299; frightened by boy, 448, goat or ram, 440, 441; its ingratitude, 447; killed by Prince, 374, 375; “Sending,” 177
Letter, changed, 73, 74, 76, 291; fixed on tree, 286; despatched, 73, 76, 231, 232, 251, 268, 269, 294, 315, 316, 328, 332, 393, 394, 401, 439
Leveret married to Prince, 187; girl in disguise, 188
Life in bird, boy, parrot, sparrow, 437, plant, 308, sword, 36, 256, 257, 266–268, 378, 379
Life-index:—Assagai, 436, flower, 35, 78, 81, 254, 257, 265, 268, herb, 436, lime tree, 35, 376, 378, milk, 36, pool, 35, 36, tree, 134, 437
Lightning strikes wicked persons, 445
Lime, fruit for repolishing sword to restore life, 37, 257; magic, 227; tree as life index, 35, 376, 378
Linschoten on black fowls, 216
Lion, and bull kill each other, 22, 23; cheated by jackal, 442; killed by snake’s breath, 456; or tiger killed or driven off, 219; roar kills bull and jackal, 22; taken alive, 285
Lizard, and iguana, 24; conquers tiger, 448; killed by Vaeddā, 25
Lotus as life-index, 254; pool, 35, 85, 297, 298, 307
Louse and bug, 30
Lucky and unlucky days, 9
Madahapola, P. B., story by, 5, 27
Mādampērāla, his cultivation and marriages, 146, 147
Madura K. falls in love with mother, 197
Maḍuwa, 160
Maerum kanawā, 262
Magical, articles:—Areka-nut, 375; arrow, 375; art, 197, 199; bead, 405, 408, 409; bird, 134, 401; boat, 133, 134, 267; bow and arrow, 65; bridle, 409; cap, 135; car, flying, 197; cat and parrot, 133; cock, 402, 405, 407–409; cord, 402, 403, 406, 408–410; crocodile, 408; fishes, 408, 409; flower, 437; food, 434; fowl, 402, 408, 409; frog, 403; garden, 402; garments, 252; grain of corn, 405; goat, 408; hair, 437; hat, 201 ff.; horse, flying, 134, 198, 199; horse, 402, 408, 409; jackal, 405, 407; life, 79, 177; limes, 227; mosquito, 408; necklace, 404; 408; obstacles, 124, 125, 434; oil, 179; ring, 129, 131–134, 360, 361, 403, 404; rosary, 409; sandal tree, 177; shoes, 135; spells, 70, 78, 79, 119, 133, 134, 151, 163, 164, 177–179, 226, 227, 267, 301, 307, 340, 357, 358, 375, 407, 409, 437, 448; stone, 177; sword, 358; talisman, 135; thread, 79, 163, 164, 227; tiger, 408; tree, 177; turtle shell, 301, 302. Power, 62, 408, 410; of Gaṇa, 53; of Nāga maidens, 365, 366; of Nāga or snake’s ring, 129, 130–134; to create raw-rice, 123–125; put into thread, 79, stone, 177. Transformations, 401–410
Magula or man̆gula, 69, 146, 343
Mahagē, and paramour, 217, 218; or mother-in-law escapes burning and gets thieves’ booty, 226, 228
Mahinda IV., K., on powers of Assessors, 446
Mahōsadha, 40, 114
Maina carries Prince, 443; young killed by cobra, 443
Males in excess, 259, 260
Mālu, 385
Malwatta High Priest on old coins, 454
Man, and crocodile, 446; and greedy wife, 99–101; and leopard or tiger, 447; and snake, 447; becomes K., 372; bird form of, 445; burnt in watch-hut, 161; carried in bag by demon, 445, by vulture, 81; disguised deposes Khan, 135; enslaved through gambling, 284; frightens enemy, 371, 372, tiger, 448; kills and cooks demon’s daughter, 455; kills lioness, 219, monkey and parrot that saved his life, 182; long-haired, 132; personates Yakā, 161 ff.; returns to be eaten, 172; saves Princess, 371; thought a demon, 180, 445
Marambe, A. J. W., on Kandian measures, 456
Mārayā assists Vedarāla, 105, 339; cheated by him, 340, 341; present at death-beds, 339
Mariyada Rāman, 111; detects deity, 341
Marriage, conditions, 99, 220, 221, 320, 361, 362; custom, alleged, 91, 188, 317; in church, 269; of Prince to Siṭu girl a disgrace, 325; polyandrous, 18, 21, 158, 159; postponed, 132–134, 197, 198, 268; to seven sisters in succession, 146; to sword, 320, 434; without ceremony, 99, 141
Massa or Masurama, 106, 127–129, 136–138, 155, 241, 253–255, 273, 305, 313–315, 328–330, 366, 453, 454; double, 454, 455; golden, 386, 387, 453, 454; pretended, 240, 241
Mātalāna, his robberies and tricks, 347 ff.
Māyama, 115
Measures, Kandian, 456
Medical treatment:—Blindness, 139, 443; elephant’s madness, 185, 186; fever, 297, 298; growth of child, 440; headache, 372; pestilence, 37; pretended illness, 79, 80, 156
Messengers killed, 232
Mice or rats and cat, 447, 448
Mī seeds, magic, 407
Mīdum Ammā, goddess of Rākshasas, 167, 172
Milk, as life-index, 36; fetched to cure pretended illness, 79, 80
Millet cut by hares, 187
Minis, 118, 119
Minister, 153, 154; and K., 325, 352, 353; cheats K., 263, 264; daughter and Princess, 392 ff.; death sentence, 194; killed by K., 262; seizes throne, 264; stratagem to save Prince, 307, 308
Minister’s son, accompanies Prince into exile, 286, 291; appointed Minister, 284; goes with Prince to trade, 272
Moghul and servant, 75, 76
Mōhinī cheats Batmasurā and saves Śiva, 58, 60
Money:—Anna, 444; cent, 234–236; cowry, 444; dīnār, 215, 320; earnest, 235; French, values, 452; gold, 92, 139, 140, 150, 151; gold kahāpaṇa, 263, 454; masurama, 386, 387, 453, 454; hidden in thigh, 366, in dung, 150, 151, in waist-cloth, 137–140; kahāpaṇa, 450, 454, 455; larin or ridī, 452, 453; massa, double, 454, 455; massa or masurama, 106, 127–129, 136–138, 155, 241, 253–255, 273, 305, 313–315, 328–330, 366, 453, 454; measures for, 244; muhr (mohur), 399, 452; pagoda (warāgan), 131, 408, 455; paṇama, 453, 455; pound, 234, 236, 239, 243, 244, 249, 291, 452; pretended, 240–242; rix-dollar, 453, 455; rupee, 139, 151, 201, 216, 243–245, 408, 444, 452, 455; salliya, 453–455; shāhi, 452; silver, 92, 452–455; tōmān, 452; tuṭṭuwa, 152, 454, 455
Monk, and bear fœtus, 61; and pretended Yakā, 164
Monkey, and beggar, 343 ff., 367; deceives K., 244–247; frightens cultivators and herdsmen, 247; killed by man whose life it saved, 182; kills Yaksanī, 247; married to Prince, 188; outwits turtle, 449
Moon-blindness, 220–222
Moorman, and Rākshasa, 168, 169; his cattle, children and goats, 168, 169; killed by elephant, 337
Mortars, rice, trample crop, 207–209
Mosquito, a goldsmith, 353
Mother-in-law, and daughter-in-law, 225, 228, burns her, 227–229, cheats her, 240, 241; drowned, 224, 228
Mouse-deer, hare and parrot, 3, 4; induces bulls to fight, 23
Mudaliyār, 243–247
Muhr, 399, 452
Mungawē, 79
Mungus killed by Brāhmaṇa or widow, 27, 28; kills polan̆gā, 28
Mungus-boy, tricks of, 435
Mutilation, 215, 359, 364, 449; compact, 71, 72, 75–77
Mutu Kōṭṭē, Pearl Fort, 443
Naekata, 246
Naeliya, 29, 456
Nāga, a Princess, 327; K. or cobra assists kind, kills unkind Princess, 104, gives gold and silver articles, 104, magic ring, 129, 131–134; power of gem, 129–131
Nāga maiden captured by hiding clothes, 366; kills K., 135; long hair, 135; maidens restore hands and feet, 365, 366, steal flowers, 365
Nāgārjuna, 409
Nala and Damayantī, 252; misfortunes due to Kali’s jealousy, 252
Names of husband and wife not mentioned, 102
Nayide, former title of Chiefs’ sons, 441
Needlework of Princess, 314, 315; Q., 115, 116
Netting animals, 4, 12
Nindema, 165
Nobleman (siṭāna), buried, 137; daughter marries Prince, 377; son becomes Treasurer, 222; wife bears turtle, 121, 122
Nonsense tale, 384
Noose of leather or raw hide set for deer, 6, 8, 11, 12
Nose or finger cut off by compact, 71, 72, 75, 76
Nouns, irregularity in terminations, 415; verbal forms, 416, 417
Oath, 29, 83, 172, 256, 280
Obstacles, magic, 434; bamboo, charcoal, stone, 124, 125; egg, fat, milk-sack, needles, pot, soap, water, 434
Offering at hidden treasure, 170, 177, 357; to hill or tree deity, 212, 213, 370, 372; to Rākshasa, 172. See Demon
Oilman claims calf as bull’s, 441
Omens:—Cry of crow, 17, of cock, 51, of woodpecker, 6, 7, 12; injury caused to animals, 196, 197; counteracted by delay, 7, 196
Omitted incidents, 457
Oriole, golden, eaten by eagle, 16
Oṭannāpahuwa, 158, 159
Paddy or rice dust eaten, 123–125, 144, 281, 292
Pǣla, 456
Pæya, length, 452, 458
Pagoda (warāgan), 131, 408, 455
Palace created, 105, 130–135, 437; underground, 358
Palm-cat and mother, 189, 190
Pāmula peṭṭiya, 41, 149
Paṇama, 453, 455
Pañcāla K., 51; Q., 154
Pāñcika, General or K. of demons, 35
Paṇḍitayā killed cobra and saved K., 27
Paṇḍukābhaya K., story of, 438
Paramour, 118–120, 176, 212–218, 296–298, 345, 346, 372
Parody, 21, 156
Parrot, and hare, 3; accompanies Prince, 296–298; assists Brāhmaṇa, 131; bought by Prince, 128; escapes from net, 441; friend of Rākshasa, 180–182; kept by Rākshasa, 172–174; out of sea, 133; recovers Princess and ring, 130, 131
Participle, form of, 417
Pārvatī curses Gaṇa, 53; unable to enrich Brāhmaṇa, 398, 399
Pata, 29, 456
Pāṭaliputra, 334
Peacock, wooden flying, 90
Pearl Fort, 443; pearls in hidden treasure, 177, vomited by birds, 455
Pearson, Dr. J., on name of water-snake, 186
People taken alive out of fishes, 385
Percival, Capt., on coins, 455
Pestilence cured by flower offering, 37
Pigs assist youth who saved them, 361, 362
Pinkama for beggars and cripples, 92
Piśāca kills boy, 448
Pitfall to kill Prince, 330, 335
Plate fragments as money, 240–241
Pliny on bear cubs, 61
Poisoning, 134, 189, 255, 256, 294, 315, 327, 330; poisonous snakes as present to blind K., 436
Polan̆gā killed by cobra, 27; by mungus, 28; as “Sending,” 250
Polyandry, 18, 21, 158–160
Polygamy, 59, 78, 120, 152, 165, 327, 397, 399, 438
Pool as life-index, 35, 36; at palace gate, 195; drunk dry, 299; of Apsarases, 297, 298
Portents:—caw of crow, 17; crow of cock, 51; cry of woodpecker, 6, 7, 12; injury caused to animals, 196, 197
Portraits painted, 433, 434
Pots, household, 141, 244
Potter chosen as K. by elephant and hawk, 382; frightens enemy, 371; kills raja, treatment of corpse, 216
Pound, 234, 236, 239, 243, 244, 249, 291, 452
Precepts, Buddhist, 10, 11
Prediction, 48, 51, 193, 258
Pregnancy longings, 84–87, 102, 308
Prince, abandoned by mother, 195; abandons wife, 252, 326, 327; abduction of wife, 130–134, 315, 378, 379; accompanied or assisted by animals, 131–133, 296–299, 361, 362; and ascetics, 117; and farmer, 76, 77; and foster-brother, 438; and Heṭṭiyā, 273 ff., 286 ff.; and lion, 285; and Minister’s son, 272, 283–284, 291; attends school, 300, 363; avoids pit-fall, 330, 335; banished, 97, 98, 127, 139, 220, 265, 285, 325, 392; becomes ascetic, 119, cow-herd, 287, 301, cultivator, 265, 268, drummer, 93, flute-player, 98, gardener, 287, general, 332, K., 51, 131, 132, 197, 255, 283, 299, 303, 309, 312, 333, 397, labourer, 76, 77, shop-keeper, 271, slave, 272, 286, Treasurer, 222; blind at night, 220; blinded, 443; born in chank shell, 153; brilliance of, 114, 254; buried, 257, 332; buys advice, 139–140, animals, 127, 129, wife, 313; changes letter, 291; cheated by wife, 118, 119; cheats Heṭṭiyā, 273–281; consults magical books, 117; creates palace and Princess, 130; cures blindness, 443, 447, demon illness, 376; cuts chena, 221; cuts off leg of ogress, 438; death sentence, 96, 97, 153, 174, 195, 306, 328, 392, 396; eats master’s food, 278, 279; escapes from dangers, 195, 198, 330, 332, 333, slavery, 283, 291; elopes with Princess, 195, 198; falsely charged by step-mother, 95–98; feeds guards of magic tree, 177; finds Princess in cave, 266, 311; flies on wax or wooden horse, 193, 198; frightens thieves, 222, 312; foundling reared by K., 195; giant, 373 ff.; (or man) gives blood to be drunk, 90, 93; gives master’s goods away, 273, 274; goes for lotus flower, 297, 298, 307, turtle-doves, 443, to trade, 131, 272, 310; his humble friends, 375; imprisons wife, 326; in love with mother, 196, 197; inside lamp, 304–308; jumps across river, 373; killed by bear, 53, by burning his sword, 257, 268, by villagers, 309, in well, 154; kills cattle as deer, 287, 288, cobra or snakes, 332, 334, 443, mad crocodile and leopard, 374, mad elephant, 294, master, 76, Prince, 154, Rākshasas, 434, robbers and sister, 296, 298, snakes, 334, 434, wife through jealousy, 52, Yakā, 377; learns women’s deception, 118–120; leaves country, 300; leaves his own body, 410; life-index, 254, 257, 265, 268, 376, 378; life in sword, 256, 266–268, 378, 379; lives with flower mother, 193, 301, Kinnarās, 307, 308; marriage to Siṭu girl a disgrace, 325; marries carpenter’s daughter, 93, girl found in cave, 103, 266, Heṭṭi girl, 291, Kinnarī, 362, 363, leveret, 187, low-caste girl, 309, monkey, 188, poor girl, 104, Princess and her two friends, 397, 399, Princess born from his blood, 117, Rākshasa’s daughter, 437, Siṭu girl, 377, village girl, 113, 309; meritorious because spared by elephant, 307; mutilated, 77, 98; poisoned food given, 134, 256, 315, 330; poisons wife, 327; ploughs after egret, 276, 277; puts horse-dung in master’s clothes, 280, 281, 289, 290; rears egret, 153; receives advice from teacher, 329, magic food, 434, magic ring, 129, 131, 133, turtle shell, 301; recovers kingdom, 252; refuses to marry before sister, 295; rescues Princess from robbers, 312, from snakes, 139, from Yakā, 266; revived when dead, 257, 268, 298; revives dead, 434; rogueries, 273–291; saves city from destruction, 311, infant sister, 293, 294; seeks Princess, 268–271, dead wife, 52; shoots animals, 96, 117, 118; slaughters enemies, 379; slavery through gambling, 272, 286; sleeps while awaiting Princess, 269, 316; sold for a thousand masuran, 273; swallowed by crocodile, 297, 298; takes oath, 280; tells story, 52; ties up cattle, 275, 284; tasks before marriage, 443; unable to learn, 300, 328, 329; visits Princess at night, 194
Princes, abandon country, 253, 254; abduct Princesses, 103; banished, 96, 97, 265; born from eggs, 154; cut chena, 187; death sentence, 97; falsely charged by step-mother, 95, 97, 98; game with oranges or pigeons, 95, 97; go for turtle-doves, 443, valuables, 103, 104; hares’ eyes given as theirs, 96; identified when guards, 92, 382, 383; killed on wedding night, 331, 332, 334; kill snake, 404; life-indexes, 254, 257; reared by widow, 91; revive dead Prince, 257, 268
Princess, and boy-magician, 403–405; and creeper cutter, 316, 317, 319; and two friends agree to marry teacher, 392 ff.; and trader, 270, 271, 318; and Vaeddās, 117–119, 269, 270, 317–319; abducted, 91, 130–134, 266, 268, 311, 312, 315, 316, 371, 378, 379; about to marry son, 196; bait for thief, 46, 47; becomes Nāgayā when poisoned, 327, shop-keeper, 270, 271; born from Prince’s blood, 117; brilliance, 113, 114; created, 130; deceives Prince, 118, 119; disguised to attract husband, 326; does household work, 321; dresses as man, 270, 318, 320, (or girl) elected K., 320; elopes with fish-owl, 21, Prince, 195, 198, thief, 46; escapes after marriage, 269, from prison, 326, from Vaeddās and others, 270, 317, 318; falsely charges brother-in-law, 364; fights Ifrit, 409; finds husband by giving dāna, feast or pinkama, 92, 93, 270, 271; finds long floating hair, 132; frog, 434; golden bed of, 312; golden or long hair floats away, 130–133, 266; hears story, 52; husbands killed on wedding night, 331, 334; identifies sons as guards, 92; imprisoned, 315, 326; keeps husband’s corpse in coffin, 257; killed by brother, 298, cobra, 104, husband 52, 327; kills husband, 370; knits scarves, 314, 315; learns and teaches sciences, 313, 318; learns dancing, 326; marries boy-magician, 405, 407, 408, brave man, 438, carpenter’s son, 90, 92, caterpillar-boy, 132, eight times, 331, 332, farmer, 443, Koṭā, 362, Minister, 311, Prince, 154, 302, 377, 397, 399, Princess, 319, 320, Sokkā, 369, thief, 46, 47, 323, 399; needlework of, 320; ordered to be buried alive, 293; plots to kill brother, 296–298; poisoned, 327; polyandry of, 18–21; postpones wedding, 91, 298; reborn as Nāga, 327; receives wealth from elephant K. or Nāga K., 103, 104; recovered by animals, 130–134, by wax figure, 319; seizes youth in room, 404; selects husband, 318; snakes issue from nostrils, 139; swoons at Prince’s brilliance, 254; takes oath, 256; weighed daily, 194, 198, weekly, 305; wife of fish-owls, 21; writes letter, 268, 316, 393, 394
Princesses, abducted, 103, 108; buried alive, 293; daughters of bitch, 102; live in forest cave, 103, 108; treatment by cobra or Nāga K., 104, of mother, 103, 109; steal K.’s flowers, 360, 361; stratagem to catch sister’s lover, 195
Prognostic, 94, 97, 98, 246
Pronouns avoided, 417
Punishments:—Beating, 214, 260; beheading, 127, 260, 352, 391, 392; burning in lime-kiln, 391; burying alive, 98, 134; death, 52, 96, 97, 194, 195, 197, 214, 258, 298, 391, 446; exile, 97, 98, 127, 197, 265, 285, 325, 346; fine, 215; flaying alive, 320; giving as demon offering, 345; goring by tusk elephant, 337, 338; hanging, 46; impalement, 257, 312, 338, 438, 451; imprisonment, 216; killing in trap, 49; mutilation, 71, 72, 75–77, 215, 359, 364, 449; plucking eyes out, 96, 98; putting in stocks, 347, 348, 351; throwing down precipice, 97; trampling by elephant, 307; turning K. mad, 132
Puseka, 345
Queen, abandoned by K., 250, 252; abducted, 382; adopts bought infant, 197; and daughter do housework, 321; and girl, 113; and K., 115, 116, 258, 260; and thieves, 321–323; and young birds, 94, 97, 98; assisted by cobra and devas, 104; Asura or demon figure shown as her child, 152, 154; banished, 152, 197; bears chank shell, 152, hundred eggs, 154; beaten, 260; becomes garland maker, 250, 251, servant, 252; beheaded, 260; buys shark, 152; Chief Q., 304, 327; compact with Jōgī, 408; does house work, 321; eats fruit to bear child, 152, 154; false charges made, 95–98; jealousy, 253; killed by lightning, 445; misfortunes caused by deities’ jealousy, 252; pierces eyes with spike, 96; recovers lost husband, 251, 252, and children, 381, 382; removes thorn in cobra’s mouth, 105; sells firewood, 397; sends away Prince, 285, 392; sends Princes for turtle-doves, 443; sews shawl, 115, 116; sold, 382; teaches women’s subtlety, 115, 116; tells K. a story, 116; Treasurer’s wife becomes Q., 262; turned into mule, 407
Queens, seven, 152; false charge by six, 152
Races of animals, 442
Rākshasa, and elephant guard, 107; and men, 166–170; and tom-tom beater, 457; and Yakā, 169; boundary of, 169, 172; burnt, 125; carried in sack, 168; creates cake-tree, 167; deceived by woman, 119, 457; disguises of, 169–171; drinks pool dry, 299; eats goats, 169, 172, his sons or youths, 166, 170–172, 178; jewelled fire-cock stolen, 122, 125; foolish, 107, 174; friend of man, 176, of crane or parrot, 180–182; goddess of (Mīdum Ammā), 167; gold and silver goods, 107, 172, 174, 181, 182; guards treasure, 335; killed by Bhimasēna, 436, by eating charmed body, 179, by elephant, 108, on refusing alms, 172; (or spirits) kill bridegroom on wedding night, 334, 335; palace of, 82, 172; protects country, 436; re-birth from Yaksanī’s bosom, 179; releases man on promise to return to be eaten, or provide substitute, 167–170, 172, 176, 178; robbed by thief, 181, youth, 174; unable to eat wakeful boys, 173; wife elopes, 175; youths save travellers, 83
Rākshasas abduct Princess, 133; animals, dwellings and habits of, 172, 174; driven away by man, 438; eat Gamarālas, 166; exceed Yakās in power, 169, 172, 179; fatal fight of, 166; not in Ceylon, 172; oath not to eat visitors, 83
Rākshasī abducts Princess, 134; afraid of Moorman, 168; assists man or Prince, 434, 438; becomes bee, 134; begs cakes, 167; buried alive, 134; carries Rākshasa in sack, 168; magic boat of, 133, 134; marries youth, 175
Ram frightens leopard, 441
Rat, and turtle, 9, 12; assists deer to escape, 11, 12, Brāhmaṇa or Prince to recover stolen ring or talisman, 131–135. Rats dig tunnel, 326
Rat-snake, white, eating head confers sovereignty, 48
Reaping custom, 147
Re-birth, 35, 37, 52, 60, 179, 228, 229, 308, 327, 332
Removable animal jacket, shell or skin:—Ass, bird, crocodile, dog, woman’s skin, 445; caterpillar, 132; hare, monkey, 188; mungus, 435; turtle, 121–126, 301, 302
Return to earth after death, 52, 143, 227, 228
Rewards by K. or Princes, claimed falsely, 375, 451; daughter’s hand, 46; daughter’s hand and half or share of kingdom, 46, 47, 295, 312, 371; district and elephant’s load of goods, 107, 164, 165, 350; district, elephant’s load of goods, and a thousand masuran, 366; elephant’s load of goods, 218, 219, 266, 306, 360; five hundred masuran, 255; kingship and offices, 122; Office of Commander-in-Chief or Minister, 372; offices, 186; presents or wealth, 353, 374, 375, 440; Treasurer’s post, 222
Rhampsinitus K., story of, 46
Rice, dust eaten, 123, 125, 144; field custom, 142, 147; mortars tied up for trampling crops, 207, 209; pounded at grave, 448; raw, 123–125
Ridī (larin) value and weight, 452, 453
Ring, as trophy, 119, 120; identification by, 197, 362, 363; in well, 445; jewelled, of K., 106, 107, 184; magic, becomes Prince, 403, 404, cures mutilated youth, 360, turns things to gold, 133; power of Nāga or snake’s ring, 129, 134; sent in water-jar, 361–363
River God saves man, 434
Rix-dollar, 453, 455
Roads, bad and good, 272, 286, 292
Robe hidden in thigh, 366; of Apsaras or Nāga maiden concealed, 366
Robin, black, killed, 17
Rolling on ground, a mark of grief, 298, 299, 446
Royal Council, 327
Royal Preceptor, 328, 331
Rukh, 81, 198
Rupee, 139, 151, 201, 216, 243–245, 408, 444, 452, 455
Saddhunanda Sthavira, story by, 272
Śakra as god of death, 87, 88, old man, 87, 145; eats dāna and leaves presents, 145; gives fruit to be eaten to bear son, 154; prevents arrow from falling, 49; sends rain, 14; white throne of, 14
Sale of child, 197; land, 136; Q., 382
Sāli, Prince, marriage of, 309
Salliya, 453–455
Sannyāsi, killed by Yakā, 79; performs spell for birth of children, 78
Sapta-Kanyās, 197
Sawu-sarana, saw-saraṇak, 400, 421
Scarecrow, 39
Scarves knitted by Princess, 314, 315
School, 35, 89, 90, 115, 168, 173, 230, 231, 234, 300, 392, 400, 406, 407; at pansala, 363
Sciences learnt, by boy, 115, Princess, 313, Yakās, 35; taught by Princess, 318
Seed and out-turn, 457
Semi-consonants, omission or misuse of, 162
Senasurā, as leopard and polan̆gā, 250; his jealousy, 252; induces beggar to gamble, 249
Sendings, animal, 451; by Senasurā, 250; by Yakā, 177
Sentence, irregularity of arrangement, 418; seven headings, 418
Sēruwa, 456
Seven, amuṇas, 147; blows, 348; boxes, 131; brides, 146; caskets, chests, 437; chenas, 146; children, 121; cocks, 409; cubits, 133; days, 68, 69, 84, 93, 169, 215, 385; demons, 371; divine maids, 197; fishes, 409; fish-owls, 18–21; magicians, 409; marriages, 331; padlocks, 119; patas, 29; pieces, 22, 170; pots of arrack, 306; Princes, 127, 187, 265, 331; Princesses, 301, 360; Queens, 152; seas, 157, 451; sons, 230, 313; wazīrs, 97; wet-nurses, 373; widows, 364; wives, 78; women, 187; years, 48, 409, 443. Seventy-five masuran, 305
Shāhi, Persian coin, value, 452
Shark bought, 152; caught and eaten, 82; swallows chank, 152
Sheep’s burning fleece fires buildings, 451
Shillings, 453, 455
Ship bought, 234–236; swallowed by fish, 385
Shooting, 49, 64, 65, 96, 153, 253, 270
Sickle gets fever, 446
Sisters, seven married in turn, 146
Siṭāna, buried, 137; daughter married by Prince, 377; reduced to poverty, 240; son becomes Treasurer, 220–222; wife bears turtle, 121, buried, 241
Śiva, and Batmasurā, 57 ff.; and Pārvatī, 398; causes bridegrooms to be killed, 334; his bull visits earth, 211; saved by Mōhinī, 58–60; split open, 60; teaches soothsaying, 58; tells story to wife, 53
Siwurāla assists travellers, 142, 143; celestial cars sent for him, 143; wife returns after death, 143
Six, acres, 76; bulls, 73; children, 139; days, 389–391; friends, 436; maunds, 216; months, 133, 134, 197, 343; sons, 84–87. Sixty yālas, 71
Skin jacket or shell, removable, 123, 126, 132, 188, 301, 302, 435, 445
Sky near earth, 433
Slavery, 273 ff., 284, 286; slave’s head shaved, 272, sold for 1,000 masuran, 273
Smelling heads, 382
Smith makes bow and arrow, 153, trap, 49
Smoke eaten by deities, 436
Snake, and man who saved it, 447; assists beggar, 185, 186; bought by Brāhmaṇa or Prince, 127, 131; breath kills elephant and lion, 456; deities ate men, 228; deity burns lovers, 120; drives elephant mad, 185; gives dog’s form to girl, 445, magic ring, 129, 131–134, power to understand animals’ speech, 260; issues from nostril of Princess or Q., 334; killed or cut in two, 228, 327, 332, 334, 434; K. bites and disguises Nala, 250, 252; kills bridegroom on wedding night, 332–334; venom blinds K., 436
Sokkā, beggar, story of, 367 ff.; frightens enemy, 369; kills flies and thought a murderer, 367; plot to kill wife, 369; killed by her, 370
Sokkā (Prince), and Heṭṭiyā, story of his slavery, 285 ff., 457, 458
Son, and mother, 223 ff., drowns mother-in-law, 224; killed instead of intended victim, 438, 439; made Treasurer, 228; wife burnt, 227, 229
Son-in-law cheats and mutilates Gamarāla, 71–75; mutilated, 71; (or servant) scalds father-in-law or master, 73, 76
Sons deceived by sham money, 242; identified when guards, 92, 382, 383
Soothsayer, and boy, 355; finds hidden treasure, 355; pretended, becomes sub-K., 437, 438; robbery explained by, 45
Soothsaying studied by Prince, 117; taught by Śiva, 58
Soul in cage, 445; in dead body, 410
South, residence of smoke-eating gods, 436
Sovereign, 452
Sparrows’ or swallows’ nestlings killed by spines or thorns, 94, 97
Spell, 58, 59, 79; Kala, 307; protective, 119, 177, 178, 226, 227; to bear children, 78; to cause horse to void coins, 151; to find lost property, 437; to find or open treasure chamber, 357, 358; to give magic power to articles, 375, 407; to keep off demons, 177, 178; to kill Rākshasa, 179; to perform desired acts, 301, 375; to prevent movement, 70, 307, 340; to restore human form, 409; to revive mother, 448; to sail boat, 133, 134; to seize Yakā, 163, 164
Spirit, human, enters and revives dead animals, 408, 410; man’s spirit leaves body, 409, 410
Splitting stomach, 60, 74
Statue, wax, made, 319
Step-mother falsely charges Princes, 95, 97, 98; pierces eyes with spike, 96
Stocks constructed, 347, 348; maker and K. put in them, 348, 351
Stone-bow, 253
Stones as coins or valuables, 242
Stories, how written, 413; story told, 52, 53, 116, 381, 382
Subject governed by wisin, 414
Subjunctive, form of, 417
Subtlety of women, 115, 116, 118–120
Sulambāwatī city, 19
Sun God, and fish owls, 20; assists girl, 104; moon and wind, story of, 433
Swapna-mālaya, 415, 417; on length of pæya and watch, 452
Swimming, 39, 82, 83, 298, 299, 379
Sword, becomes wooden, 97; life in, 36, 256, 257, 266–268, 378, 379; magic, 358, 409; marriage, 320, 434
Tailor’s clothes, story of, 440
Talisman, 135
Tāmalitta, 346, 433
Tamarinds sown, 263
Tambi, innocent, executed, 338
Tasks given:—To girl or potter—to bring bear’s hair or milk, collect mustard seed or pulse, bring tiger’s milk, 443, 444; to husband—to bring bear’s, elephant’s, giju-lihinī’s milk, and wrestle with Yaksanī, 79, 81; to Prince, two, 335, three, 363, 443, 444; to servant, or son-in-law, 71, 76; to wife,—to bear son, 326; to youth,—to bring Nāga girl, 135, before marriage to collect mustard seed, 362, plough yam enclosure, 361, select Princess in dark, 362
Tavalama, 68, 69, 250
Teacher and girl pupils, 392–396; cheated by magician-pupil, 401–409
Ten, children, 165; cowries, 444; days, 201, 368; flies, 367, 368; marriages of woman, 99; masuran, 314; men, 448; peasants, 442; pingo loads, 148; pounds of fritters, 434
Texts of stories, 419 ff.
Thief becomes K., 323; beheads brother or father, 41, 44, 46; elopes with Princess, 46; falls from tree, 42, 45; hanged, 46; hides stolen money, 215; impaled, 338; killed by Prince, 298; kills parrot that saved his life, 180, 182; married to Princess, 46, 47, 323, 399; mutilated, 215; personates K., 349, Yakā, 162–164, Rākshasa, 181; plot to kill Prince, 296, 297; puts carpenter and K. in stocks, 348, 351; rides tiger, 456; robs Yakā, 37; scalds sleeping man, 451; steals K.’s clothes, 348–350, led ass, 206; thrown down precipice, 371; tied to corpse and thought a Yakā, 179, 180
Thieves cheat each other, 321–324; killed by Prince, 296; made motionless by spell, 70; robbed of booty, 222, 225–226, 228, 229; steal flowers, 360, 361
Thigh split and money or robe hidden in it, 366
Thirsts, 90, 254
Thousands:—Archers 125; bags of rice, 236; dīnārs, 215; gold kahāpaṇas, 454; Kinnarīs, 363; leagues, 133; masuran, 106, 127–129, 155, 273; muhrs, 399; ounces of silver, 111; pagodas, 408; pounds, 234, 236, 249, 291; ridīs, 453; robbers, 125; rupees, 139, 151, 444; slaves, 151; stolen goods, 226
Thread magic, 79, 163, 164, 227
Three, animal guards, 182; arrows, 437; bags of masuran, 254; brothers, 173; children, 105; cornered hat, 201; countries, 254; cultivators, 189; days, 45, 170, 269; districts, 303; doors, 182; flowers, 254; girls, 393; gold coins, 139; gryphons, 444; houses, 39, 216; hundred cakes, 39; magic obstacles, 123–125, 434; masuran, 136; meats, 385; men, 118, 200, 442; mī seeds, 407; months, 218, 311, 312, 350, 378; omens, 196; paths, 35; pieces, 332; persons, 363, 445; Princes, 253, 443; rogues, 205; ships, 310; sons, 443; tasks, 362, 363, 443, 444; thieves, 336; thousand rupees, 444; times, 307; trees, 205; truths, 354; turtle-doves, 443; widows, 123–125; women, 118; Yakās, 35; years, 91, 340, 410
Three-cornered Hatter’s bull made goat, 200; his revenge, 201 ff.
Throne of Śakra, 14
Tī, 370, 416
Tiger, and man or musk-deer who saved it, 446, 447; assists Prince, 443; fights lizard, 448; foolish, loses crop, 446; frightened by animals, 441, man, 455, 456; ridden by man, 456
Tōmān, Persian, value, 452
Tom-tom beater and Gamarāla and Rākshasa, 457; becomes K., 48, 49; beaters killed, 49; beating, 50
Tongue bitten by man or woman, 226, 229, 308
Tortures:—Burying alive, 98; impaling, 257, 312, 338, 438, 451; pouring boiling oil into wounds, 98; scourging with thorns, 98; thirty-two, list of, 449
Toṭagamu city, 21
Transformations:—Bitch into golden pumpkin, 103, precious stones, 105; boy and magician, 401–409; of man, 409; Princess and Ifrit, 409; Q. into mule, 407; woman into gold stool, 104
Transliteration, table of, 419
Travellers’ shed (ambalama), 35, 73, 223
Treasure, hidden, discovered by Sannyāsi, 79, soothsayer, 355; guarded by Yakā, 79, by Jinni, 335; human flesh offering to demon in charge, 79, 170, 355; procedure on taking, 79, 177, 178, 357; revealed by Yakā, 176, 177
Treasurer, and mad K., 261, 262; boy appointed, 239, rich man, 228, Siṭu man, 222; seizes throne, 262
Tree, as life-index, 35; bears clothes, 150; cut with hair or wax hatchet, 443; deity personated, 212, 215; or figure as judge or witness, 215, 216
Tri-Sin̥hala, 303
Tun pas-wissak, 305
Tunnel dug by rats, 326
Turtle, 29; and deer, 5–12; and rat, 9–12; carried by crane or geese, 442; disguised Prince, 301, 302; goes for jewelled Fire-cock, 122–125; marries Princess, 122; out-witted by monkey, 449; receives three magic obstacles, 123–125; turtle shell burnt, 126
Turtle doves brought from Pearl Fort, 443; turtle dove or pigeon kills mate or young, 13–15
Turtle Prince, 301–303; becomes K., 303; hunting episode, 302, 303
Tuṭṭuwa, 152, 454, 455
Twelve, amuṇas, betel-creepers, calves, dogs, haunches of venison, 71, 73; cubits, 132; fathoms, 132; furrows, 76; pearls, 177; persons, 119; plates of rice, 119; sacks, 238; soldiers, 232; years, 131, 321, 333; years’ drought, 447
Twenty-five years, 138, 301
Uḍakkiya, 156
Udaya, dawn mountain, 362
Umā and Batmasurā, 57, 58
Uncle = boy’s father, 356
Ungrateful men kill animals that assist or save them, 182
Unlucky day, 341
Vaeddā, and deer, 6, 7; and iguana, 24, 25; and Princess, 117, 119; finds Princesses in cave, 102, 103
Vaeddās and Princess, 269, 270, 317–319
Vedarāla, cheats Mārayā, 339 ff.; prescription of, 21; stuck to bullock’s skull, 66, 67
Vibhīsana, K., supplies young Garuḍa to Brāhmaṇa, 198
Vidēhā K., 51
Vikramāditya, story of, 334
Villager buried, 68, 218; corpse left at cemetery, 179, 225, 228; cremated, 308; fall on journey to heaven, 209–211
Vow, 345, 369–371
Vowels shortened, 417
Vulture carries off elephant and man, 81; rears children, 436
Walahā, derivation, 61
Wal-bowā, wild cat, 55
Wan̥sādipati, 19, 245
Wasa, 20, 148
Washerman, cheated and robbed, 349, 350; rears and instructs tom-tom beater youth, 49–51
Watch, length, 451, 452
Watch-hut, 62, 63, 65, 66, 148, 161, 217, 222
Water, ordered to stop running, 445; thirst, 254
Waterhen, an areka-nut trader, 353
Wax flying horse, 193 ff.; melted, 195
Weaver appointed Minister, 372; frightens enemy, 371, 372; kills demons, 371, tiger, 219; marries Princess, 371
Wedding customs, 64, 66, 188
Weighing Princess or girl, 194, 198, 305
Wheel, turning on, 450
Widow kills mungus which saved her child, 27, 28; witch or ogress abducts Princess, 130–134
Wife beaten, 151, 260; cheated, 240–242; name not mentioned, 102
Wijaya-Bāhu paid kahāpaṇas for relic casket, 454
Wolf, fox and hare in larder, 56; out-witted by jackal, 449
Woman abandons blind husband, 339; abducts Princess, 130, 131–134, 378; appointed K., 93; becomes gold stool, 104; burnt, 225, 227; cheats ascetics, deities, men, 118, 120, Badawi, 435; dancing, 155, 157; death sentence, 391; divorced for greediness, 99, idleness, 146, sterility, 78; elopes, 39, 160; frightens demon-expeller, thieves, servant, 226, 229; impaled, 257; kills son, 439; many marriages, 99, 158, 160; prays for husband’s blindness, 212, 213, 215, 216; pushes husband over precipice, 371, 372; reaps millet, 147; rears lost children, 380, 381; returns to earth after death, 143; son assisted by Mārayā, 105, 339
Woodpecker, and deer, 5 ff.; makes evil omens, 6, 7, 12
Wrestling, 81, 82
Yakā abducts Princess, 266, 311; afraid of Rākshasa, 169, 172, 179; at burial place, 179; causes illness, 376; chief, general or K., 35; deceived by woman, 120; eats corpse, 36, people, 337; gives wealth, 176, 177; in log, 217; in tree, 169; killed by Prince, 377, by wife, 36; kills treasure seeker, 79; life in sword, 36; mode of invocation, 163, 164; not usually man-eating, 36, 172; personated, 162, 164; “Sendings” of, 177; visits woman in guise of man, 176
Yakā, pretended, 161 ff.; attempts to seize him, 163, 164; carries off articles and bride, 162; grants made to him, 165
Yakadurā, tongue bitten by pretended demoness, 226
Yakās attend school, 35; emblems, 35; learn sciences, 35, life-indexes, 35; cultivate, trade, marry women, 36, 37; forms of, 237
Yaksanī bears Rākshasa by bosom, 179; has no tongue, 226; her wealth, 247; killed by monkey, 247; kills and revives man, 81, 82; pretended, 226; wrestles with man, 81, 82
Yāla, 19, 71, 456
Yama, 88, 327
Yōgī deceived by woman, 120
Young birds killed by step-mother, 94, 97, 98
Youth, banished for uselessness, 220; becomes K., 132, 135, 145, 334; conceals coins inside thigh, 366; elopes with Rākshasa’s wife, 175; frightens thieves, 222; jumps into Rākshasa’s mouth, 171; kills snake issuing from wife’s nostrils, 334; long hair of, 132; made Treasurer, 222; marries Princess, 361, 362; mutilated by brother, 359, 364; performs K.’s tasks, 361, 362; robs and escapes from Rākshasa, 174, 175; set afloat on raft, 149; taken alive out of fish, 299
Youths, and Rākshasa, 171, 173–175; change his sons’ clothes, 173; eaten by R., 171, 178; not eaten when awake, 173
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