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Tales of the Sun: Or, Folklore of Southern India

Tales of the Sun: Or, Folklore of Southern India

by Lucas Cleeve

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Author
Sastri, Pandit Natesa
Title
Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India
Credits
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Language
English
LoC Class
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject
Legends -- India
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37002
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37002
Release Date
August 7, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Preface.
  3. 3.Contents.
  4. 4.Introduction.
  5. 5.The Story of the Three Deaf Men.
  6. 6.Why Brâhmaṇs cannot eat in the Dark.
  7. 7.The Soothsayer’s Son.
  8. 8.Raṇavîrasiṅg.
  9. 9.“Charity Alone Conquers.”
  10. 10.Mr. Won’t-Give and Mr. Won’t-Leave.
  11. 11.Mr. Mighty-of-his-Mouth and Mr. Mighty-of-his-Hands.
  12. 12.The Mother-in-Law became an Ass.
  13. 13.The Story of Appayya. 1
  14. 14.The Brâhmiṇ Girl that Married a Tiger.
  15. 15.The Good Husband and the Bad Wife.
  16. 16.The Good Wife and the Bad Husband. 1
  17. 17.The Lost Camel and Other Tales. — First Part. — XIII . — The Three Calamities. — XIII. — Second Part. — Story of the Honest but Rash Hunter and His Faithful Dog. — XIII. — Third Part. — Story of the Brâhmaṇ’s Wife and the Mungoose. — Story of the Faithless Wife and the Ungrateful Blind Man. — XIII. — Fourth Part. — Story of the Wonderful Mango Fruit. — XIII. — Fifth Part. — Story of the Poisoned Food. — “Eating up the Protector.” 10
  18. 18.The Monkey with the Tom-Tom. 1
  19. 19.Pride Goeth Before a Fall.
  20. 20.Good Will Grow Out of Good.
  21. 21.Light Makes Prosperity.
  22. 22.Chandralêkhâ and the Eight Robbers.
  23. 23.The Conquest of Fate.
  24. 24.The Brâhmaṇ Priest who became an Amildâr. 1
  25. 25.The Gardener’s Cunning Wife.
  26. 26.Keep it for the Beggar.
  27. 27.Good Luck to the Lucky One; Or, Shall I Fall Down?
  28. 28.Retaliation—Palikkuppali.
  29. 29.The Beggar and the Five Muffins.
  30. 30.The Brahmarâkshas and the Hair.
  31. 31.Notes — Notes to XIII.—First Part. — Notes to XIII.—The Second Part. — Notes to XIII.—The Third Part. — Notes to XIII.—The Fourth Part. — Notes to XIII.—The Fifth Part.
  32. 32.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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