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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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