Village Folk-Tal
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共 390 题- VILLAGE FOLK-TALES OF CEYLON
- Vol. III
- Collected and Translated by
- H. PARKER
- Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon
- CONTENTS
- STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
- NO. PAGE
- STORIES OF THE LOWER CASTES
- STORIES OF THE POTTERS
- STORIES OF THE WASHERMEN
- STORIES OF THE TOM-TOM BEATERS
- STORIES OF THE WESTERN PROVINCE AND SOUTHERN INDIA
- NO. PAGE
- SOUTH INDIAN STORIES
- SINHALESE TEXTS OF STORIES
- Introductory Remarks 413
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONAL NOTES, AND CORRECTIONS
- Omitted Incidents 457
- Index 459
- STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE
- NO. 178
- CONCERNING THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE HARE AND THE PARROT
- One day the Parrot said to the Hare, "Friend."
- The Parrot says, "My friend has not come to-day."
- Thereupon the Parrot said, "What, friend?"
- Then the Parrot asked, "Well then, what are you telling me to do?"
- NO. 179
- THE DEER AND ITS FRIENDS
- THE DEER, THE JACKAL, AND THE CROW. (Variant a.)
- THE RAT AND THE TURTLE THAT KEPT THE PRECEPTS. (Variant b.)
- The Gamarala said "Ha."
- NO. 180
- THE FOOLISH BIRD [8]
- The text of the verse is:--
- In a variant by a Tom-tom Beater the verse is:--
- NO. 181
- THE GOLDEN ORIOLE
- NO. 182
- THE STORY OF THE VIRA TREE FISH-OWLS [11]
- Thereupon the Sun asked, "Of what lineage are ye, Fish-Owls?"
- NO. 183
- THE LION AND THE BULL'S TRUST IN HIM
- NO. 184
- THE LIZARD AND THE IGUANA
- NO. 185
- THE COBRA AND THE POLANGA
- THE WIDOW AND THE MUNGUS
- NO. 185A
- THE CRAB AND THE FROG
- NO. 186
- A LOUSE AND A BUG
- STORIES OF THE LOWER CASTES
- STORIES OF THE POTTERS
- NO. 187
- THE THREE YAKAS
- The Yaka's wife asked, "Where is your life?"
- The Yaka said, "In my stomach."
- The Yaka said, "In my breast."
- The Yaka said, "In my neck."
- At last the Yaka said, "My life is in [the brightness of] my sword."
- NO. 188
- THE TIME OF SCHOLARS
- STORIES OF THE WASHERMEN
- NO. 189
- THE THIEF CALLED HARANTIKA
- THE DEXTEROUS THIEF AND HIS SON. (Variant.)
- NO. 190
- THE STORY OF THE FOUR-FOLD TRAP [38]
- Thereupon the King asks, "Are there not Tom-tom Beaters in this city?"
- NO. 191
- THE FOOLISH PRINCE
- One day, this Prince asked another man, "Did you see my Princess?"
- NO. 192
- THE JACKAL AND THE GAMARALA
- Thereupon the Jackals ask, "Where, Gamarala, are you going?"
- Then the Cat said, "Ane! Appa! Having killed thee they will kill me."
- STORIES OF THE TOM-TOM BEATERS
- NO. 193
- THE STORY OF BATMASURA [45]
- Then the Princess said, "Teach him that also."
- The Princess said, "He will not do so; utter it."
- Then the woman asked at the hand of Batmasura, "Where are you going?"
- After that, Batmasura asked, "Can you go with me?"
- The woman said, "Summon her and come."
- Then Batmasura came, and said to the woman, "Let us go."
- NO. 194
- THE STORY OF AYIWANDA
- Then the bride's mother asked, "Where is the Vedarala?"
- NO. 195
- THE GAMARALA'S SON-IN-LAW
- NO. 196
- THE STORY OF THE GAMARALA'S SON
- Afterwards the lad said, "What is the difficulty for you?"
- The Yaksani said, "I don't know [about that]."
- Then the youth [said], "Don't say 'No'; you must give him, quickly."
- NO. 197
- THE MANNER IN WHICH THE GAMARALA BURIED HIS SONS
- The boy said, "On account of our mother's absence I am weeping."
- The boy said, "I must go to see our mother's life."
- NO. 198
- THE STORY OF THE WOODEN PEACOCK
- Afterwards the Carpenter asked, "Why, Ade! dost thou not go to school?"
- Then the Carpenter asked, "What dost thou not go to school for?"
- The Princess said "Ha."
- NO. 199
- THE WICKED STEP-MOTHER
- The Princes said, "Our step-mother beats and scolds us."
- Afterwards the King said, "Go there, you."
- The Queen said, "Am I a slave to drag about anybody's orange?"
- The King having come asked, "What is it?"
- NO. 200
- THE WOMAN WHO ATE BY STEALTH
- NO. 201
- THE STORY OF THE BITCH
- The Princess said, "Our mother brought and gave it."
- NO. 202
- THE ELEPHANT GUARD
- The man said, "What will you give me?"
- The Rakshasa said, "It is to eat thee that I came."
- The Rakshasa said, "I came to eat you, Sir."
- Thereupon the man asked, "What have you come here again for?"
- NO. 203
- THE ELEPHANT-FOOL
- Thereupon the man who owned the elephant says, "I will kill thee."
- The man said, "I will bring a water-pot and give you it."
- NO. 204
- HOW A GIRL TOOK GRUEL
- Then the Prince asked, "Are you coming immediately?"
- Again the Prince asked, "On which road go you to your house?"
- NO. 205
- THE BOY WHO WENT TO LEARN THE SCIENCES
- NO. 206
- THE PRINCE AND THE ASCETICS
- NO. 207
- THE TURTLE PRINCE [100]
- NO. 208
- THE GEM-SET RING
- Then the Prince asked, "For how much will you sell the Cobra?"
- The man said, "It is a thousand masuran."
- Then the Queen asked, "Son, what is the merchandise you have brought?"
- Then the Queen asked, "Son, on this journey what have you brought?"
- Then the Princess says, "We eat by the power of the gem-set ring."
- Then the Prince said, "Are there not other boxes?"
- The rat said, "There is one more."
- The Prince said, "If so, cut thou [a hole in] it."
- NO. 209
- THE STORY OF THE BRAHMANA
- NO. 210
- THE STORY OF A SIWURALA [116]
- The woman said, "That is false you are saying."
- NO. 211
- HOW THE POOR MAN BECAME WEALTHY
- The King said, "Can you go with me to my city?"
- The fishermen said, "We will give it. String these fishes."
- NO. 212
- THE STORY OF MADAMPE-RALA
- NO. 213
- ÆWARIYAKKA
- NO. 214
- THE HORIKADAYA STORY
- NO. 215
- THE STORY OF BAHU-BHUTAYA
- NO. 216
- THE STORY OF GOLU-BAYIYA [145]
- NO. 217
- THE YAKA OF THE AKARAGANE JUNGLE
- Afterwards the King of the city said, "Who can seize that Yaka?"
- Then a man said, "I can."
- The King said, "What do you want?"
- Then the King asked, "What is it? Didst thou seize the Yaka?"
- Then the King asked, "Can you seize the Yaka of the Akaragane jungle?"
- The man having said, "I can," said, "What will you give me?"
- Then the man said, "I don't want anything."
- NO. 218
- THE FOUR RAKSHASAS
- One Rakshasa said to another Rakshasa, "Take him for yourself."
- Then the other Rakshasa says, "I don't want him; you take him."
- This Rakshasa says, "I don't want him."
- Then that Rakshasa said, "Give him to me, if so."
- Then the Rakshasa says, "I don't want cakes; I must eat you."
- The Rakshasa said, "I indeed don't eat these."
- The Rakshasi said falsely, "The cake fell into the heap of cow-dung."
- The Rakshasa says, "O Rakshasi, what happened to thy Rakshasa?"
- The Rakshasa says, "To eat thee I seized thee."
- The Rakshasa says, "If so, wilt thou bring and give them?"
- The Moorman says, "I will bring and give them."
- The Rakshasa says, "To eat thee."
- The Moorman says, "O Rakshasa, where are you going?"
- The Rakshasa says, "I cannot live in this jungle!"
- Then the men say, "We came for no special purpose (nikan)."
- The men say, "This meat is indeed human." [157]
- The Rakshasa says, "I hold thee for me to eat."
- The man says, "There are two children of mine."
- Then he says, "Don't eat me; I will give my two children."
- The tiger says, "Thou art telling lies."
- The man says, "In three days I will bring and give them to thee."
- The woman says, "The two boys went to break firewood."
- Then said that woman, "Sons, your father beat me."
- That youth said, "Father sent me into this chena jungle."
- The Rakshasa says, "Didst thou come alone?" [160]
- NO. 219
- THE STORY OF THE RAKSHASA
- The owner of the goats asked, "Who can bring it?"
- Then those two said, "There is a good horse at that Rakshasa's house."
- The man who owned the goats asked, "Who can bring the golden pillow?"
- NO. 220
- THE THIEF AND THE RAKSHASAS
- Then the Yaka says, "Are thou a greater one than I?"
- The parrot says, "I am sitting in my nest."
- The thief says, "If so, how shall I go from this jungle?"
- The thief says, "What is that for?"
- Thereupon the Rakshasa says, "To eat thee."
- The parrot says, "I sent him."
- Then the Rakshasa says, "Am I to eat this one?"
- Then the Rakshasa says, "Where have I, Bola, an elder brother?"
- The Rakshasa says to that Rakshasa's youth, "Where went this thief?"
- NO. 221
- KING GAJA-BAHU AND THE CROW
- The King asked, "What are the things you require for it?"
- Then the King asked, "How dost thou know?"
- NO. 222
- THE ASSISTANCE WHICH THE SNAKE GAVE
- Then he asked the beggar, "How didst thou cure this sickness?"
- NO. 223
- THE LEVERET, OR THE STORY OF THE SEVEN WOMEN
- NO. 224
- THE GREEDY PALM-CAT [173]
- It went up the tree. Once more the female Palm-cat said again, "Don't."
- STORIES OF THE WESTERN PROVINCE AND SOUTHERN INDIA
- NO. 225
- THE WAX HORSE [174]
- NO. 226
- THE THREE-CORNERED HATTER [181]
- NO. 227
- THE GAMARALA WHO WENT TO THE GOD-WORLD
- NO. 228
- THE GAMARALA WHO ATE BLACK FOWLS' FLESH AND HIN-AETI RICE
- NO. 229
- HOW THE GAMARALA DROVE AWAY THE LION
- NO. 230
- THE SON WHO WAS BLIND AT NIGHT
- NO. 231
- THE SON AND THE MOTHER [198]
- She said, "No, son; she is staying to bring a great many goods."
- NO. 232
- CONCERNING THE HETTI MAN'S SON
- NO. 233
- THE FORTUNATE BOY [209]
- The boy asked, "For how much will you sell it?"
- NO. 234
- HOW THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GOT THE MASURAN
- NO. 235
- The King thought, "Maybe this person is a richer man than I!"
- At that time the King asked Appusiñño, "Whence comes this money?"
- Thereupon the King asked Appusiñño, "What has split your head?"
- NO. 236
- HOW THE BEGGAR AND THE KING GAMBLED
- NO. 237
- THE STORY OF THE KING
- NO. 238
- THE KING WHO LEARNT THE SPEECH OF ANIMALS
- The royal Queen having been near, asked, "What did you laugh at?"
- Then, also, the royal Queen asked, "What did you laugh at?"
- Thereupon the Jackal said, "No, O Lord; I looked into an account."
- Then the King asked, "What account art thou looking at?"
- At that time, the Queen asked, "Is the tank built and finished?"
- NO. 239
- THE MAD KING
- THE KAHAWANA SOWING (Variant)
- NO. 240
- CONCERNING THE PRINCE WITH HIS LIFE IN HIS SWORD
- He asked the Princess, "Are you a human daughter, or a Yaksa-daughter?"
- Then the Prince asked the Princess, "Will you come to go with me?"
- So the Princess asked the Prince, "Where is your life?"
- At that time the Prince said, "My life is in my sword."
- The Vaeddas asked the Princess, "If so, how is it [to be]?"
- NO. 241
- THE ROYAL PRINCE AND THE HETTIRALA [235]
- The Prince says, "I can do anything."
- At that time the Prince says, "It is good; I can look after cattle."
- At that time the Prince says, "It is good. I am able to do that work."
- When he asked the Prince, the Prince says, "It is good; I can go."
- NO. 242
- PRINCE SOKKA [242]
- Thereupon Sokka said, "I don't know; there is no whip."
- Then the grandmother asked, "What, Sokka, shall we do for it?"
- NO. 243
- THE AFFECTIONATE PRINCE
- The man said, "In this bundle is your younger sister, Sir."
- Then the Prince said, "I stabbed it with my sword and killed it."
- The Prince having come asked, "What is it, younger sister?"
- The Princess said, "Ane! Elder brother, I have got fever."
- NO. 244
- THE PRINCE WHO RECEIVED THE TURTLE SHELL
- NO. 245
- CONCERNING A PRINCE AND A KINNARA WOMAN
- NO. 246
- THE WAY IN WHICH THE PRINCE TRADED
- NO. 247
- A PRINCESS AND A PRINCE
- The King asked, "What is that for?"
- Then the Prince gave answer, "My wife knits them."
- NO. 248
- CONCERNING A ROYAL PRINCESS AND TWO THIEVES
- NO. 249
- HOW THE NAGAYA BECAME THE PRINCESS
- NO. 250
- THE STORY OF THE COBRA'S BITE
- NO. 251.
- HOW THEY KILLED THE GREAT-BELLIED TAMBI [265]
- NO. 252
- HOW MARAYA WAS PUT IN THE BOTTLE
- Thereupon Maraya said, "I came by the hole into which the key is put."
- NO. 253
- THE WOMAN PRE-EMINENT IN CUNNING [270]
- NO. 254
- MATALANA
- Thereupon the washerman asked Matalana, "What is that you are eating?"
- NO. 255
- THE FIVE LIES QUITE LIKE TRUTH [282]
- NO. 256
- THE THREE TRUTHS
- The Hyæna said, "It is true."
- The Hyæna said, "It is true."
- NO. 257
- THE FALSE TALE
- NO. 258
- THE STORY OF KOTA
- THE FLOWER-GARDEN STORY (Variant)
- The younger brother having come, asked, "What?"
- The King [asked], "What does he require [296] for it?"
- Afterwards she said, "You must build a house."
- That Kota said, "Who said she will give power to me?"
- NO. 259
- THE STORY OF SOKKA
- The man having seen Sokka asked, "Friend, what are you doing?"
- Thereupon the King said, "What do you require?"
- At that time Sokka said, "[Even] should that be so, I must kill thee."
- NO. 260
- THE GIANT AND HIS TWO FRIENDS
- Thereupon the Prince asked, "Are there dried areka-nuts?"
- Afterwards the Situ daughter said, "There are."
- This Prince asked these two, "Can you swim to that ship?"
- NO. 261
- HOW THEY FORMERLY ATE AND DRANK
- NO. 262
- THE GOURD FRUIT DEVIL-DANCE
- NO. 263
- THE ASCETIC AND THE JACKAL
- SOUTH INDIAN STORIES
- NO. 264
- CONCERNING THE BLIND-EYED MAN
- The Hettiya said, "No matter, come holding it."
- NO. 265
- THE DESTINY PRINCE
- Then the Destiny Prince asked, "Of what city are you?"
- The firewood trader said, "I had two Princes."
- No. 266
- THE TEACHER AND HIS PUPIL
- His mother said of it, "It is good."
- To that speech the Princess said, "It is good."
- THE TEACHER AND THE BULL (Variant a)
- THE BRAHMANA AND THE SCHOLAR (Variant b)
- SINHALESE TEXTS OF STORIES
- NO. 81
- CONCERNING A ROYAL PRINCE AND A PRINCESS
- RAJA-KUMARAYAKUT KUMARIKAWAK GÆNA
- NO. 126
- THE STORY OF THE SEVEN WICKED WOMEN
- NAPURU GAENU HADDENAGE KATANTARAYA
- NO. 134
- THE STORY OF THE RAKSHASA AND THE PRINCESS
- RAKSAYAGEYI KUMARIKAWAGEYI KATANTARAYA
- NO. 207
- THE TURTLE PRINCE
- IBI KUMARAYA
- NO. 216
- THE STORY OF GOLU-BAYIYA
- GOLU BAYIYÆ KATHAWA
- NO. 225
- THE WAX HORSE
- ITI ASWAYA
- APPENDIX
- ADDITIONAL NOTES, AND CORRECTIONS, VOLUME I.
- VOLUME II.
- VOLUME III.
- OMITTED INCIDENTS.
- NOTES