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
Cryptic sayings, 112, 114, 344, 345, 446
Cultivation customs, 142, 146, 147, 207
Curry, 385
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
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
Dice personified, their jealousy, 252
Dikpiṭiyā, story of, 38;
elopes with man’s wife, 39;
Dippiṭiyās, 40, 155
Districts of Ceylon, 303
Divorce for greediness, 99;
idleness, 146;
sterility, 78;
pretended custom, 91
Doves saved assist youth, 362
Duṭṭha-Gāmaṇi, story of death-bed, 143
Dwarf or boy cheats and drowns relatives and frightens thieves, 435
Earnest money, 235
Eating seated, 448
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
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