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Anga ashoka tree asked the king bathe beauty body Brahman youth brave brother cemetery city called clever Cloud-chariot Copper City counsellor's counsellor's son creature cried dead dear delighted fairy father fell Fierce-lion flag-pole Friend-wealth Ganges river garden Garuda Gauri gave giant girl goblin had told goblin heard grief happy Hariswami head heart heaven heaven cried heavenly heavenly creature HEN the king hermit Hero husband jewels Kalinga killed king named King Shudraka King Triple-victory king went back king's men king's shoulder Lily Listen lived Lotus Love-cluster maiden Majesty Malwa married merchant monk moon Moon-lord Moonlight mother night old woman palace parrot pilgrim pleased prayed prince princess put the goblin sacrifice Sandal sent servants Shell-crest Shiva sissoo tree specialist in women spoke started tell terrible thief thing thrush told this story Ujjain Vasuki virtue Vishnu weeping wife wise wonderful worshipped the goddess
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Page 78 - When they heard him, the two younger brothers laughed and said: "Sir, you seem to know our common duty, but not your own." Then the eldest said: "What? Are you not aware that I am a connoisseur in food? For I am a specialists in foods. How can I touch this loathsome thing?" When he heard these words, the second brother said: "But I am even more of a connoisseur. I am a specialist in women. So how can I touch it?" After this speech, the eldest said to the youngest: "Do you then, being younger than...
Page 149 - ... cost of a pearl? The world is full of creatures like me, who are merciful only to themselves. But creatures like you, who are merciful to all the world, are very rare. Oh, pious being, I could not stain the pure family of Shell-guard, as the dark spot stains the disk on the moon." Then Shell-crest said to his mother: "Mother, return from this desolate place. Do you not see the rock of sacrifice wet with the blood of serpents, the terrible plaything of Death? I will go for a moment to the shore...
Page 54 - ... remedy for the trouble. And the clever man made a chariot as before, full of all kinds of weapons, and brought Hariswami with the wise man and the brave man in a moment to the Vindhya forest. And the wise man showed them the giant's den. When the giant saw what had happened, he came out in anger, and the brave man fought with him. Then came a famous duel with strange weapons between a man and a giant for the sake of a woman, like the ancient fight between Rama and Ravana. Though the giant was...
Page 45 - ... Then Hero woke the little boy, told him all, and said: "My boy, if you are sacrificed to the Dreadful Goddess, our king will live. If not, he will die in three days." And the boy was true to his name. Without fear and without hesitation he said: "My dear father, I am a lucky boy if the king lives at the cost of my life. Besides, that would pay for the food we have eaten. Why then delay? Take me quickly and sacrifice me to the goddess. May the king's evil fate be averted by my death!" And Hero...
Page 125 - ... in a moment. And the king was still determined to catch him, and went once more to the sissoo tree. TWELFTH GOBLIN The Brahman who died because Poison from a Snake in the Claws of a Hawk fell into a Dish of Food given him by a Charitable Woman. Who is to blame for his death? Then the King went back under the sissoo tree, put the goblin on his shoulder, and started as before. And as he walked along, the goblin said to him again: "O King, listen to a very condensed story.
Page 45 - So Hero first approached the goddess with a hymn of praise: "O Demon-slayer! Saviour! Devil-killer! Trident-holder! Joy of the wise! Protectress of the universe! Victory to thee, O best of mothers, whose feet the world adores! O fearless refuge of the pious! Kali of the dreadful ornaments! Honour and glory to thee, O kindly goddess! Be pleased to accept the sacrifice of my head in behalf of King Shudraka.
Page 217 - ... and a strange time and place for such as you. They say truly that you are the best of kings, for you serve others without thinking of yourself. This is the very thing that makes the greatness of a great man, when he does not give a thing up, though it costs his very life." So the monk felt sure the he was quite successful, and he took the body from the king's shoulder. He bathed it and put garlands on it, and set it in the middle of the circle. Then he smeared his own body with ashes, put on...
Page 174 - ... lived a glorious king named Moon, who delighted the eyes of his subjects. Wise men said that he was brave, generous, and the very home of beauty. But in spite of all his wealth, he was very sad at heart. For he found no wife worthy of him. One day this king went with soldiers on horseback into a great wood, to hunt there and forget his sorrow. There he split open many boars with his arrows as the sun splits the black darkness, and made fierce lions into cushions for his arrows, and slew mountainous...
Page 4 - ... fearlessly to get him. SECOND GOBLIN The Three Lovers who brought the Dead Girl to Life. Whose wife should she be? Then King Triple-victory went back under the sissoo tree to fetch the goblin. And when he got there and looked about, he saw the goblin fallen on the ground and moaning. Then, when the king put the body with the goblin in it on his shoulder and started to carry him off quickly and silently, the goblin on his shoulder said to him: "Oh King, you have fallen into a very disagreeable...
Page 161 - ... called Invincible, and the magic fruit which wards off birth, old age, and death. And the king took the sword and the fruit, plunged into the pool which she showed him, and came up in his own country, feeling completely successful. But Good ruled happily over the kingdom of the princess. When the goblin had told this story, he asked the king: "O King, which of these two deserves more credit for plunging into the sea?