Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)
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- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Note.
- Part I STORIES TOLD BY THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDĀS.
- No. 1 The Making of the Great Earth
- No. 2 The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy
- No. 3 The Story of Senasurā1
- No. 4 The Glass Princess
- No. 5 The Frog Prince
- No. 6 The Millet Trader
- No. 7 The Turtle Dove
- No. 8 The Prince and the Princess
- No. 9 Tamarind Ṭikkā
- No. 10 Mātalangē Loku-Appu
- No. 11 The White Turtle
- No. 12 The Black Storks’ Girl
- No. 13 The Golden Kaekiri Fruit
- No. 14 The Four Deaf Persons
- No. 15 The Prince and the Yakā
- No. 16 How a Yakā and a Man fought
- No. 17 Concerning a Man and Two Yakās
- No. 18 The Three Questions1
- The Four Difficult Questions.
- No. 19 The Faithless Princess
- No. 20 The Prince who did not go to School
- No. 21 Nagul-Munnā
- No. 22 The Kulē-bakā Flowers
- No. 23 Kurulu-gama Appu, the Sooth-sayer
- No. 24 How a Prince was chased by a Yaksanī, and what befel
- No. 25 The Wicked King
- No. 26 The Kitul Seeds
- No. 27 The Speaking Horse
- No. 28 The Female Quail
- No. 29 The Pied Robin
- No. 30 The Jackal and the Hare
- No. 31 The Leopard and the Mouse-deer
- No. 32 The Crocodile’s Wedding
- No. 33 The Gamarāla’s Cakes
- No. 34 The Kinnarā and the Parrots
- No. 35 How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit.
- No. 36 The Jackal and the Turtle
- No. 37 The Lion and the Turtle
- Part II STORIES TOLD OF OR BY THE LOWER CASTES
- No. 38 The Monkey and the Weaver-bird
- No. 39 The Jackal Dēvatāwā
- No. 40 A Kaḍambāwa Man’s Journey to Puttalam
- No. 41 The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Hares
- No. 42 The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Mouse-deer
- No. 43 The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Bush
- No. 44 How the Kaḍambāwa Men counted Themselves
- No. 45 The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Dream
- No. 46 The Four Tom-tom Beaters
- No. 47 The Golden Tree
- No. 48 The Seven Princesses
- No. 49 Mr. Janel Siññā
- No. 50 The Nikini Story1
- No. 51 The Aet-kanda Lēniyā1
- No. 52 The Wimalī Story
- No. 53 The Pots of Oil
- No. 54 The Mouse Maiden1
- No. 55 Sīgiris Siññō, the Giant
- No. 56 The Proud Jackal
- STORIES OF THE DURAYĀS No. 57 The Seven Robbers
- No. 58 The Stupid Boy
- No. 59 The Gamarāla and the Washerman
- THE DEVIL AND THE HUSBANDMAN
- The Gamarāla and the Washerman. (Variant.)
- No. 60 The Two Thieves
- No. 61 The Margōsa Tree
- No. 62 The Gamarāla’s Foolish Son
- No. 63 The Jackal’s Judgment
- No. 64 The Heron and the Crab
- The Pond Heron. (Variant.)
- The Pond Heron. (Variant.)
- No. 65 The Jackal and the Brāhmaṇa
- No. 66 The Cat who guarded the Precepts
- How the Cat became an Upāsakā.6 (Variant.)
- How the Cat performed Bell Worship. (Variant.)
- No. 67 The Lizard and the Leopard
- No. 68 The Lion and the Jackal
- How the Jackal Cheated the Lion. (Variant.)
- STORIES OF THE ROḌIYĀS No. 69 The Roll of Cotton
- No. 70 The Jackal and the Leopard
- No. 71 How the Boars killed the Rākshasa
- No. 72 The Grateful Jackal
- STORIES OF THE KINNARĀS No. 73 Concerning a Monk and a Yakā
- No. 74 The Three Suitors
- No. 75 The Crocodile and the Jackal
- INDEX
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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