Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India

In a remote village there lived a poor Brahman and his wife. Though several years of their wedded life had passed, they unfortunately had no children, and so, being very eager f...

The sun was now high in the horizon and the three brothers became very hungry. So they sat down near a tank and opened the bundle containing the ball of rice. To their utter dis...

"My most holy master! The deep respect I entertain towards your holy feet is such that, though your holiness's words are plain, I am led to think that they are merely uttered to...

The two friends chased the deer and found themselves in the midst of a thick forest in the evening. Except a slight breakfast in the early morning they had tasted no other food....

Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father were over, took leave of his elder brother, and started for Banaras. [4] He went by the middle of the Dakhan,...

Meanwhile a carriage containing the jars of sweetmeats sent by the king of Vijayanagara drove up to the palace, and the emissary who accompanied the present, told the royal serv...

The wood yielded him herbs, fruits, and roots, and the river, proverbial [96] for its sweet waters, supplied him with drink. He lived, in fact, as simply as the bard who sang:--

All those assembled were astonished to find such a wretched priest appointed to so responsible a post, but when it was made known that Gundappa was the new Amildar the customary...

The feelings of the prince inside were like that of a man who was being led to the gallows. The bitterest enemy of his life, the minister himself, was coming to that very place...

Thus spake king Alakesa, but all the ministers, not knowing what answer to return, hung down their heads in silence. Among those present was an aged minister named Manuniti, who...

In an adjoining village there lived another very clever Brahman, named Won't-Leave. [51] Whenever he found any man reluctant and unwilling to give him anything that he begged of...

Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade technicalities. [79] By the rules of this secret language tiru means "thr...

Few stories are more familiar and widely spread than that of the Lost Camel, which occurs in the opening of the romance. It was formerly, and perhaps is still, reproduced in Eng...

"Why should you, my children, thus trouble these poor subjects of Ujjaini? Reply to me, and henceforth desist from your ravages." Thus said the Soothsayer's son, and the followi...

So said the rich landlord, and gave the key of that haunted house to the poor Brahmin. The latter took it, and with his family went and lived there from that day. That very nigh...

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"Go and eat this somewhere on the bank of the lake, for this place is unfit to eat in, as it is filled with feasting Brahmans." He said "I will do so," and took the vessel of ri...