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
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
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
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
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