Footnote 514:
A species of demon.
Footnote 515:
This is one of the innumerable parallels to the story of Jonah in the
“whale’s” belly which occur in Asiatic fictions. See, for some
instances, Tawney’s translation of the “Kathá Sarit Ságara,” ch. xxxv.
and lxxiv.; “Indian Antiquary,” Sept. 1885, Legend of Ahlá; Miss
Stokes’ “Indian Fairy Tales,” pp. 75, 76; and Steel and Temple’s
“Wide-Awake Stories from the Panjáb and Kashmír,” p. 411. In Lucian’s
“Vera Historia,” a monster fish swallows a ship and her crew, who live
a long time in the extensive regions comprised in its internal
economy. See also Herrtage’s “Gesta Romanorum” (Early English Text
Society), p. 297.
Footnote 516:
In the Arabian version the people resolve to leave the choice of a new
king to the royal elephant because they could not agree among
themselves (vol. i., p. 323); but in Indian fictions such an incident
frequently occurs as a regular custom. In the “Sivandhi Sthala
Purana,” a legendary account of the famous temple at Trichinopoli, as
supposed to be told by Gautama to Matanga and other sages, it is
related that a certain king having mortally offended a holy devotee,
his capital and all its inhabitants were, in consequence of a curse
pronounced by the enraged saint, buried beneath a shower of dust.
“Only the queen escaped, and in her flight she was delivered of a
male-child. After some time, the chiefs of the Chola kingdom,
proceeding to elect a king, determined, by the advice of the saint, to
crown whomsoever the late monarch’s elephant should pitch upon. Being
turned loose for this purpose, the elephant discovered and brought to
Trisira-málí the child of his former master, who accordingly became
the Chola king.” (Wilson’s Desc. Catal. of Mackenzie MSS., i. 17.) In
a Manipurí story of two brothers, Turi and Basanta—“Indian Antiquary,”
vol. iii.—the elder is chosen king in like manner by an elephant who
meets him in the forest, and takes him on his back to the palace,
where he is immediately placed on the throne. See also “Wide-Awake
Stories from the Panjáb and Kashmír,” by Mrs. Steel and Captain
Temple, p. 141; and Rev. Lal Behari Day’s “Folk-Tales of Bengal,” p.
100, for similar instances. The hawk taking part, in this story, with
the elephant in the selection of a king does not occur in any other
tale known to me.
Footnote 517:
So that their caste might not be injured. A dhobí, or washerman, is of
much lower caste than a Bráhman or a Khshatriya.
Footnote 518:
A responsible position in a rájá’s palace.
Footnote 519:
“And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Rájá Ambá must have been fully twelve years in the stomach of the
alligator.
Footnote 520:
This device of the mother to obtain speech of the king is much more
natural than that adopted in the Kashmírí version.
Footnote 521:
The story of Abú Sábir (see vol. i. p. 81 ff.) may also be regarded as
an analogue. He is unjustly deprived of all his possessions, and, with
his wife and two young boys, driven forth of his village. The children
are borne off by thieves, and their mother forcibly carried away by a
horseman. Abú Sabir, after many sufferings, is raised from a dungeon
to a throne. He regains his two children and his wife, who had
steadfastly refused to cohabit with her captor.
Footnote 522:
Introduction to the romance of “Torrent of Portingale,” re-edited (for
the Early English Text Society, 1886) by E. Adam, Ph.D., pp. xxi-xxii.
Footnote 523:
Morning.
Footnote 524:
Bird.
Footnote 525:
Mean; betoken.
Footnote 526:
Thee.
Footnote 527:
_Tho_: then.
Footnote 528:
_Yede_: went.
Footnote 529:
Case.
Footnote 530:
_Avaunced_: advanced; promoted.
Footnote 531:
_Holpen_: helped.
Footnote 532:
_Brent_: burnt.
Footnote 533:
_But if_: unless.
Footnote 534:
_To wed_: in pledge, in security.
Footnote 535:
_Beth_: are.
Footnote 536:
_Or_: either.
Footnote 537:
_Lever dey_: rather die.
Footnote 538:
Far; distant.
Footnote 539:
Unless.
Footnote 540:
_Oo_: one.
Footnote 541:
_Ayen_: again.
Footnote 542:
_Or_: ere; before.
Footnote 543:
Army; host.
Footnote 544:
Part.
Footnote 545:
That.
Footnote 546:
Grief; sorrow.
Footnote 547:
Poor.
Footnote 548:
Gathered, or collected, together.
Footnote 549:
Arms; accoutrements; dress.
Footnote 550:
Bravely.
Footnote 551:
Those.
Footnote 552:
Done; ended.
Footnote 553:
Their lodgings; inn.
Footnote 554:
Since.
Footnote 555:
Comrades.
Footnote 556:
Truly.
Footnote 557:
Lodged.
Footnote 558:
Inn.
Footnote 559:
_Hem_: them.
Footnote 560:
Chief of the army.
Footnote 561:
_I note_: I know not.
Footnote 562:
Nor.
Footnote 563:
Place.
Footnote 564:
That is, by means of his hounds.
Footnote 565:
A wood.
Footnote 566:
Those.
Footnote 567:
_Her_: their.
Footnote 568:
Looks towards; attends to.
Footnote 569:
Give.
Footnote 570:
Excepting; unless.
Footnote 571:
Face; countenance.
Footnote 572:
Care; close examination.
Footnote 573:
_Palata_, Lat. (_Paletot_, O. Fr.), sometimes signifying a particular
stuff, and sometimes a particular dress. See Du Cange.
Footnote 574:
Cut; divided.
Footnote 575:
Wept.
Footnote 576:
Sailing.
Footnote 577:
More.
Footnote 578:
Much.
Footnote 579:
Sultan.
Footnote 580:
Name.
Footnote 581:
Voice, _i.e._ command.
Footnote 582:
Slew.
Footnote 583:
Labour.
Footnote 584:
Drew.
Footnote 585:
Went.
Footnote 586:
Burning coal.
Footnote 587:
Pray; beg.
Footnote 588:
Recovered.
Footnote 589:
Head.
Footnote 590:
Weeping.
Footnote 591:
Saw.
Footnote 592:
Waving.
Footnote 593:
Began to climb.
Footnote 594:
Against.
Footnote 595:
More.
Footnote 596:
From an early volume of the “Asiatic Journal,” the number of which I
did not “make a note of”—thus, for once at least, disregarding the
advice of the immortal Captain Cuttle.
Footnote 597:
“It was no wonder,” says this writer, “that his [_i.e._ Galland’s]
version of the ‘Arabian Nights’ achieved a universal popularity, and
was translated into many languages, and that it provoked a crowd of
imitations, from ‘Les Mille et Un Jours’ to the ‘Tales of the Genii.’”
Footnote 598:
This is a version of The Sleeper and the Waker—with a vengeance! Abú
Hasan the Wag, the Tinker, and the Rustic, and others thus practised
upon by frolic-loving princes and dukes, had each, at least, a most
delightful “dream.” But when a man is similarly handled by the “wife
of his bosom”—in stories, only, of course—the case is very different,
as the poor chief of the police experienced. Such a “dream” as his
wife induced upon him we may be sure he would remember “until that day
that he did creep into his sepulchre!”
Footnote 599:
I call this ‘strikingly similar’ to the preceding Persian story,
although it has fewer incidents and the lady’s husband remains a monk;
she could not have got him back even had she wished; for, having taken
the vows, he was debarred from returning to “the world,” which a
kalandar or dervish may do as often as he pleases.
Footnote 600:
“The Woman’s trick against her Husband.”
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