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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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