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The Ocean of Story Being C.H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story)

1927

205S:"x THE OCEAN OF STORY The Story of Bidavina shlaka as Part of a Cycle of Stories The story of the clever boy Balavinashtaka is told in Ocean Vol. [...] Then the demon throws him into the pot eats him and throws the head upon the ground." The laughing head then advises him to request the demon at the crucial moment to show him how to do it to seize him and throw him into the pot. [...] The motif of the cow neglected in her old age is similarly worked up quite by itself flimsily in Da(lhadhamma-Jettaka (409) where a discarded old elephant complains of the igratitude of the king its master and is restored to honour by the intercession of the Bodhisat. [...] The boy places a burning faggot upon the bowstring so that the string is burned and the rebounding bow hits the king in the head and kills him. [...] Anangarati and her Four Suitors 3 There is in Avanti a city built by gods at the beginning of the world which is limitless as the body of Siva and rnowned for enjoyment and prosperity even as his body is adorned with the snake's hood and ashes.* It was called Padmarati in the Krita Yuga Bhogavati in the Treti Yuga Hiranyavati in the Dvitpara Yuga and Ujjayini in the Kali Yuga.s And in it
literature fiction
Pages
340
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142203
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxvi N.M. Penzer view
Preface
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Chapter LXXXIII
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Chapter LXXXIV
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Chapter LXXXV
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Chapter LXXXVI
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Chapter LXXXVII
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Chapter LXXXVIII
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Chapter LXXXIX
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Chapter XC
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Chapter XCI
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Chapter XCII
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Chapter XCIII
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Chapter XCIV
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Chapter XCV
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Chapter XCVI
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Chapter XCVII
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Chapter XCVIII
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Chapter XCIX
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Chapter C
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Chapter CI
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Chapter CII
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Chapter CIII
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The Twenty-Five Tales of A Vetala
197-270 unknown view
Index
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