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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years of official banishment to the
- 542 I have carefully noted these lapses and incongruities: not the less, however, I thoroughly appreciate the general excellence of the workmans.h.i.+p, and especially the imaginative scenery and the architectural designs of Mr. W. Harvey. He has shown the wo
- 541 [FN#407] The "Miskal" (for which see vols. i. 126; ix. 262) is the weight of a dinar = 1 dirham = 71-72 grains avoir. A dose of 142 grains would kill a camel. In 1848, when we were marching up the Indus Valley under Sir Charles Napier to attack Nao Mall
- 540 [FN#362] In text "al-Towab," Arab. plur. of the Persian and Turk. "Top." We hardly expected to find ordinance in the age of Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d, although according to Milton they date before the days of Adam.[FN#363] M. Houdas would re
- 539 See vol. i. 234, where it is called Al-Hasa = the Plain of Pebbles.[FN#318] Heron names him Chebib (Habib) also "Xakem Tai-Chebib"= Hatim Tayy Habib.[FN#319] The scene is described at full length in the Cotheal MS. with much poetry sung by a fai
- 538 [FN#278] In text "Al-Kawani"=the spears, plur. of "Kanat." ["Al- Kawani" as plural of a singular "Kanat"=spear would be, I think, without a.n.a.logy amongst the plural formations, and its translation by "punish
- 537 [FN#239] In text, "Mutasa'lik" for "Moutasa'lik" = like a "sa'luk."[FN#240] For this "high-spirited Prince and n.o.ble-minded lord"see vol. ix. 229.[FN#241] In text "Bisata-hum" = their carp
- 536 [FN#200] It is nowhere said in Hebrew Holy Writ that "Pharaoh,"whoever he may have been, was drowned in the "Red Sea."[FN#201] Arab. "Kaml." The Koranic legend of the Ant has, I repeat, been charmingly commented upon by Edwin
- 535 [FN#166] i.e. a witch; see vol. viii. 131.[FN#167] So in the phrase "Otbah hath the colic," first said concerning Otbah b. Rabi'a by Abu Jahl when the former advised not marching upon Badr to attack Mohammed. Tabari, vol. ii. 491.[FN#168] C
- 534 [FN#124] "Al-Natur," the keeper, esp. of a vineyard, a word naturalized in Persian. The Caliph asks, Is this a bon> fide affair and hast thou the power to settle the matter definitely?M. Houdas translates as Les raisins sont-ils a toi, ou bie
- 533 [FN#80] With this formula compare Chaucer, "The Manciple's Tale."[FN#81] In the text "Znnakt-ha," which is unintelligible, although the sense be clear.[FN#82] A bird unknown to the dictionaries, apparently a species of hawk.[FN#83
- 532 [FN#36] The simplicity of old a.s.syrian correspondence is here well preserved, as we may see by comparing those letters with the cuneiform inscriptions, etc., by S. Abden Smith (Pfeiffer, Leipsic, 1887). One of them begins thus, "The will of the King to
- 531 It is a marvel that these cadences have never been reproduced before. They have been faintly attempted by Eastwick, in his "Gulistan," whilst Mr. Payne simply pa.s.sed them over, rejected them as of no account. They fall in with Captain Burton's plan o
- 530 Farewell!Richard F. Burton United Service Club, September 30, 1888.Opinions of the Press.Morning Advertiser, September 15th, 1885.As the holiday season draws to a close the publishers' announcements of "new books" fill column after column of the organs
- 529 The first quotation is so far changed that the peppering of commas (three to the initial line of the original) disappears to the reader's gain, Lane's textual date (App. 263) is also exchanged for that of the notes (A.H. 653); and the "aera of Alexande
- 528 But the critic has been grandly deceptive, either designedly or of ignorance prepense in his arithmetic. "There are over four hundred of these (anecdotes, fables, and stories) in the complete text, and Lane has not translated more than two hundred" (p.
- 527 It has been circulated widely enough by the Lane-Poole clique--poules mouillees they are called by an Arabist friend--that I do not know Arabic. Let me at once plead guilty to the charge, adding by way of circonstance attenuante that I know none who does
- 526 Hard upon these "revelations" came the Eliza Armstrong case whereby the editor of the "s.e.xual Gazette" stultified thoroughly and effectually his own a.s.sertions; and proved most satisfactorily, to the injury of his own person, that the easiest thin
- 525 No subscriptions will be until the work is done, and then at Coutts' Bank, Strand London.Subscribers who apply directly are preferred.The author will pay carriage of volumes all over the United Kingdom. A London address is requested.And, lastly, after so
- 524 The Biography of the Book and Its Reviewers Reviewed.[" It has occurred to me that perhaps it would be a good plan to put a set of notes . . . to the 'Origin,' which now has none, exclusively devoted to the errors of my reviewers. It has occurred to me
- 523 10. Contes Arabes Modernes, recueillis et traduits par Guillaume Spitta-Bey.8vo., Leyden and Paris, 1883.This book contains 12 orally collected tales of such great importance from a folk-lore point of view that I have given full abstracts of all. They are
- 522 The Second Story Teller.The Third Story Teller.III. Prince Khalaf and the Princess of China Story of Prince Al-Abbas.Story of Liri-in.IV. The Wise Dey.V. The Tunisian Sage.VI. The Nose for Gold.VII. The Treasures of Basra.History of Aboulca.s.sem.VIII. Th
- 521 Lady Burton's Edition of her husband's Arabian Nights, translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for household reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy, M.P., London, Waterlow and Sons, Roy. 8vo. 6 vols.In preparing this edition for the press, as
- 520 Then follow notices of Anderson's MS., used by Scott, but which cannot now be traced the Calcutta edition of the first 200 Nights; and of the Wortley Montague MS. These form M. Zotenberg's third group of MSS.M. Zotenberg does not enter into the
- 519 Zotenberg's Work on Aladdin and on Various Ma.n.u.scripts of the Nights.One of the most important works which has appeared lately in connection with the Thousand and One Nights, is the following: Histoire d' 'Ala Al-Din ou la Lampe Merveill
- 518 Young Cook of Baghdad, Tale of the Warlock and the, vi. Young Sayyid, History of Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the, v. Youth Manjab, Night Adventure of Harun Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the, v. Youth who would futter his fathers wives, Story of the, v. Yusuf, The Loves o
- 517 Quintessence of things, Tale of the King who kenned the, i.Richard, Tale of the, who married his beautiful daughter to the Poor Old Man, i.Righteous Wazir wrongfully gaoled, The, v.Robber and the Woman, Tale of the, i.Sage and his Three Sons, Tale of the,
- 516 History of King Azadbakht and his Son, The Ten Wazirs; or the, i.History of what befel the Fowl with the Fowler, vi.Hireling and the Girl, Tale of the, i.How Allah gave him relief, Story of the Prisoner and, i.How Drummer Abu Kasim became a Kazi, iv.Husba
- 515 Barber and the Captain, The Cairenne Youth, the, v.Barber's Boy and the Greedy Sultan, Story of the Darwaysh and the, v.Barmecides, Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the, i.Barmecides,. Harun Al-Ras.h.i.+d and the Woman of the, i.Beautiful Daughter to the Poor Old M
- 514 The enchanted palaces of the Firm Island, with their prodigies of the Hart and the Dogs, &c., may also be mentioned (Amadis of Gaul, book II., chap. 21, &c.).Pp. 107, 108.--Stories of changed s.e.x are not uncommon in Eastern and cla.s.sical mythology and
- 513 So the Sultan Habib read over these verses more than once, and wept till he swooned away; then recovering himself he said in his mind, "To me death were pleasanter than life without my love!" and turning to the closets which lay right and left h
- 512 AND WHAT BEFEL HIM WITH THE LADY DURRAT AL-GHAWWAS.Here we begin to indite the history of Sultan Habib and of what befel him with Durrat al-Ghawwas.[FN#378]It is related (but Allah is All-knowing of His unknown and All- cognisant of what took place and fo
- 511 We continued to exchange upon the borders of its gardens the flowing bowls of conversation and of poesy, The valley was bountiful and her zephyrs brought to us what the flowers had sent to us.So when the youth had finished his recitation he turned to the
- 510 "And where didst alight?" "In the house of one Attaf hight,"rejoined Ja'afar, who recounted all that his host had done with him from the beginning to the end. The Prince of True Believers took patience, until he had told his story
- 509 HISTORY OF WHAT BEFEL THE FOWL-LET WITH THE FOWLER Here we begin to invite the History of what befel the Fowl-let from the Fowler.[FN#281]They relate (but Allah is All-knowing) that there abode in Baghdad-city a huntsman-wight in venerie trained aright. N
- 508 10. This prepares us for the second query, which you proposed, that is as to the numbers who joined in the Exodus.The Masoretic text, from which the English version of the Hebrew records is made, gives the result of the census at Sinai (=h.o.r.eb) as bein
- 507 We here begin,[FN#184] with the aidance of Allah Almighty, and invite the History of the Tarjumanah[FN#185] and the Kahramanah[FN#186] and the young man, the King's son, and whatso happed between them of controversy and of contention and interrogatio
- 506 Supplemental Nights.Volume 16.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This volume has been ent.i.tled "THE NEW ARABIAN 1 NIGHTS," a name now hackneyed because applied to its contents as far back as 1819 in Henry Weber's "Tales of the East"
- 505 [FN#600] In the text "Shashmah," from Pers. "Chashmah" a fountain; applied in Egypt to the small privies with slab and hole; vol. i. 221.[FN#601] [In Ar. "Unsak," an expression princ.i.p.ally used when drinking to one's
- 504 [FN#557] I write "Cafilah" and not "Cafila" with the unjustifiable suppression of the final "h" which is always made sensible in the pure p.r.o.nunciation of the Badawi. The malpractice has found favour chiefly through the ad
- 503 ["Ittawwah" seems to be the modern Egyptian 5th form of "Tauh."In cla.s.sical Arabic it would be "tatawwah," but in the dialect of to-day the prefix becomes "it," whose final dental here a.s.similates with the initi
- 502 [FN#471] In text "Kas'at (=a wooden platter, bowl) afrukah." [The "Mafrukah," an improvement upon the Fatirah, is a favourite dish with the Badawi, of which Dozy quotes lengthy descriptions from Vansleb and Thevenot. The latter is
- 501 [FN#426] Anglo-Indice "Mucuddum"=overseer, etc., vol. iv. 42.[FN#427] i.e. is not beyond our reach.[FN#428] In text "Ya Sultan-am" with the Persian or Turkish suffixed possessional p.r.o.noun.[FN#429] In text "mal," for which
- 500 [FN#384] The barber being a surgeon and ever ready to bleed a madman.[FN#385] i.e. Can play off equally well the soft-brained and the hard-headed.[FN#386] i.e. a deputy (governor, etc.); in old days the governor of Constantinople; in these times a lieuten
- 499 [FN#351] [The MS. has: "Ya Gharati a-Zay ma huna Rajil;" "Ya Gharati" will recur presently, p. 195, along with "ya Musibati" = Oh my calamity! I take it therefore to be an exclamation of distress from "Gharat" = inv
- 498 [FN#311] [Arab. "Yastanit," aor. to the preter. "istanat," which has been explained, supra, p. 24.--ST.][FN#312] The bed would be made of a carpet or thin mattress strewn upon the stucco flooring of the terrace-roof. But the ignorant s
- 497 [FN#265] Or "Yathrib" = Al-Madinah; vol. iv. 114.[FN#266] Scott (vi. 358 et seqq.) who makes Ali bin Ibrahim, "a faithful eunuch," renders the pa.s.sage, "by some accident the eunuch's turban unfortunately falling off; the pr
- 496 [FN#218] The "Sa'ah," I may here remark, is the German Stunde, our old "Stound," somewhat indefinite but meaning to the good Moslem the s.p.a.ces between prayer times. The cla.s.sical terms, Al-Zuha (undurn-hour, or before noon) a
- 495 [FN#174] The Asiatics have a very contemptible opinion of the Russians, especially of the females, whom they believe to be void of common modesty. Our early European voyagers have expressed the same idea.--Scott.[FN#175] i.e. having enjoyed the woman.--R.
- 494 [FN#137] In the text "Darajah"=an instant; also a degree (of the Zodiac). We still find this division of time in China and j.a.pan, where they divide the twenty-four hours into twelve periods, each of which is marked by a quasi-Zodiacal sign: e.
- 493 [FN#96] [Here I suppose the word "kal" has been dropped after "bi 'l-s.h.i.+'r," and it should be: He (the youth) replied, that was our common sire, Adam, etc.--ST.][FN#97] "Habil" and "Kabil" are the Arab
- 492 "ikhsau" = be ye driven away, an in two other places (ii. 61, vii. 166), the nomen agentis "khasi" = "scouted" occurs, as applied to the apes into which the Sabbath-breaking Jews were transformed. In the popular language of t
- 491 she a.s.sumed a satisfied air; and as the only way to preserve her honour, received the addresses of the treacherous master with pretended complacency, and consented to receive him as a husband at the first port at which the s.h.i.+p might touch."[FN
- 490 This story belongs to the large category known to students of folk-lore as the Sage and his Pupil; and of this again there are three main groups: 1. Those in which (as in the present instance) the two remain on friendly terms.2. Those in which the sage is
- 489 The present story, though not very important in itself, is interesting as combining some of the features of three distinct cla.s.ses of folk-tales. One of these is the anti-Jewish series, of which Grimm's story of the Jew in the Bramble-Bush is one o
- 488 Story of the Second Lunatic (pp. 49-55).This is a variant of "Woman's Craft" (No. 184 of our Table), or "Woman's Wiles," (Supp. Nights, ii. pp. 99-107). Mr. L. C. Smithers tells me that an English version of this story, based
- 487 The Story of Ahmad and Ali who cuckolded their Masters, Night dcccxxiv.-dcccxxix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 SCOTT: "The Two Orphans."The Fellah and his fair Wife, Night dcccxxix.-dcccx.x.x. . . . .241 The Youth who would futt
- 486 History of Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf and the Young Sayyid, Night dx-dxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 SCOTT: "The Young Sayd and Hijauje."Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir's Daughter Rose-in-hood, Night dxxi.-dxli . .
- 485 Introductory Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9 Tale of the Trader and the Jinni, Night i.-ii. . . . . . . . . .9 The First Shaykh's Story, Night ii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 The Second Shaykh's Story, Night ii. . . . . . .
- 484 so he stood amiddlemost the floor considering the folk as they entered the jakes to do their jobs in private lest the bazar-people come upon them during their eas.e.m.e.nt. And all were sore pressed wanting to pa.s.s urine or to skite; so whenever a man e
- 483 The Eight Hundred and Fourteenth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good
- 482 Whilome there was, men say, a Khwajah, a merchant man who was lord of money and means and estates and endowments and appanages, withal he had no seed, or son or daughter, and therefore he sued Almighty Allah that he might be blessed with even a girl-child
- 481 MOHAMMED THE SHALABI AND HIS MISTRESS AND HIS WIFE.[FN#455]It is told among the many things which happened in Cairo the G.o.d-guarded that therein dwelt a man who was an Emir and who had a son Mohammed Shalabi[FN#456] hight, a youth in his day unique for
- 480 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 479 THE GOODWIFE OF CAIRO AND HER FOUR GALLANTS.[FN#354]It is said that in Misr lived a woman, a model of beauty and loveliness and stature and perfect grace, who had a difficulty with a man which was a Kazi and after this fas.h.i.+on it befel. She was the wi
- 478 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 477 Then quoth her sister Dunyazad, "How sweet and tasteful is thy tale, O sister mine, and how enjoyable and delectable!" Quoth she, "And where is this compared with that I would relate to you on the coming night an the Sovran suffer me to sur
- 476 Man hath no merit save in kindly mind * And loquent tongue with light of wits unite."[FN#253]And when Yusuf had ended his poetry he presented an hundred dinars to Ibn Ibrahim, who took the letter and fell to cutting through the wilds and the wolds, a
- 475 "Rain, O mine eyeb.a.l.l.s, gouts of blood beshed * From clouds of eyelids e'en as gra.s.s turns red.O mighty bane that beatest on my bones * And oh heart-core, that melts with fire long-fed!My soul's own dearling speedeth on his march * Wh
- 474 "For the gathering of friends and familiars design'd * Between hands of Kings and Wazirs I'm shrin'd: Upon me is whatever taste loves and joys * Of flesh and viands all kinds combin'd: From me fill thee full of these cates and pra
- 473 The fourth lady through dread of the arrow of whose cunning the warrior of the fifth heaven[FN#173] trembled in the sky, like the reed, having bestowed her attention on the pilgrim bramin (Brahman), despatched him to an orchard; and having gone home, said
- 472 An thou be 'stranged of estrangement who * Of men shall save me?Would G.o.d I wist!Fate hath won the race in departing me * And who with Fate can avail contest?'""Then, O Commander of the Faithful, my longings grew and I poured fast te
- 471 Hearing this Manjab the master of the house shrieked out a mighty loud shriek and tare his upper dress and fell aswoon to the ground, and as Al-Ras.h.i.+d looked upon him (and he bestrown in his fainting fit) he beheld upon his sides the stripes of scourg
- 470 and the most imperious is the word of Almighty Allah, 'Verily Allah ordereth justice and well-doing and bestowal of gifts upon kith and kin';[FN#67] and the justest is the word of the Almighty, 'Whoso shall have wrought a mithkal (nay an at
- 469 Supplemental Nights.Volume 15.by Richard F. Burton.FOREWORD.This volume contains the last of my versions from the Wortley Montague Codex, and this is the place to offer a short account of that much bewritten MS.In the "Annals of the Bodleian Library,
- 468 [FN#399] For the "Zakat" = legal alms, which must not be less than two-and-a-half per cent, see vol. i. 339.[FN#400] In text "Kazdir," for which see vols. iv. 274 and vi.39. Here is may allude to the canisters which make great show in
- 467 iv. p. 83. Readers will be pleased with this description of a Jinni; and not a few will regret that they have not one at command. Yet the history of man's locomotion compels us to believe that we are progressing towards the time when humanity will be
- 466 [FN#319] "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise." Matt. Xxi. 16. The idea is not less Moslem than Christian.[FN#320] [I read "Sarkhah adwat la-ha al-Sarayah" = a cry to which the palace-women raised an echo
- 465 [FN#277] This again shows the "Nakkal" or coffee-house tale-teller. See vol. x. 144.[FN#278] This is the Moslem version of "Solomon's Judgment" (1 Kings iii. 16-20). The Hebrew legend is more detailed but I prefer its rival for su
- 464 [FN#233] Arab. "Ummali"; gen. Ummal, an affirmation; Certes, I believe you![FN#234] For the many preparations of this drug, see Herklots, Appendix, pp. lxviii. ciii. It is impossible to say how "Indian hemp," like opium, datura, ether
- 463 [FN#190] The reader will have remarked the use of the Arabic "'Alaka"=he hung, which with its branches greatly resembles the Lat. pendere.[FN#191] Arab. "Min al-Malabis," plur. of "Malbas"=anything pleasant or enjoyable;
- 462 [FN#149] This form of cleverness is a favourite topic in Arabian folk-lore. The model man was Iyas al-Muzani, al-Kazi (of Ba.s.sorah), in the 2nd century A.H., mentioned by Al-Hariri in his 7th a.s.s. and noted in Arab. Prov. (i. 593) as "more intell
- 461 [FN#103] This forward movement on the part of the fair one is held to be very insulting by the modest Moslem. This incident is wanting in "Women's Wiles."[FN#104] Arab. "Labbah," usually the part of the throat where ornaments are
- 460 "Oda" whence "Odalisque"), a popular word in Egypt and Syria.[FN#60] Arab. "Al Afandiyah" showing the late date or reduction of the tale. The Turkish word derives from the Romaic Afentis ({Greek}) the corrupted O.G.{Greek}=an
- 459 [FN#16] Arab. "Ja'idiyah," a favourite word in this MS."Ja'ad"=a curl, a liberal man: Ja'ad al-yad=miserly, and Abu ja'dah=father of curls,=a wolf. Scott (pa.s.sim) translates the word "Sharper;" Gore Ouse
- 458 Old "Alma Mater," who to me has ever been a "durissima noverca,"dubs herself "University;" and not a few of her hopefuls entre faiblesse et folie, still ent.i.tle themselves "University men."The t.i.tle once belonge
- 457 On Sat.u.r.day, September 25th, Curators could not form quorum, and deferred next meeting till Sat.u.r.day, October 9th.Sat.u.r.day, October 9th. Again no quorum; and yet it might easily have been formed, as three Curators were on or close to the spot.Sat
- 456 As nearly a month had elapsed without my receiving any reply, I directed the following to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Rev. Dr. Bellamy:-- No. II.ATHENAEUM CLUB, PALL MALL, Oct. 13, 1886."Sir, "I have the honour to submit to you the fo
- 455 'When G.o.d would execute His will in anything On one endowed with sight, hearing and reasoning, He stops his ears and blinds his eyes and draws his will From him, as one draws out the hairs to paste that cling; Till, His decrees fulfilled, He gives
- 454 The Four Hundred and Forty-ninth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good
- 453 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 452 Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and good will!" It hath reached me, O auspi
- 451 There was once, O King of the Age, a merchant and a man of Ba.s.sorah who went about trading with eunuchs and slave-boys and who bore his goods in bales[FN#250] from Ba.s.sorah to Ajam-land there to sell them and to buy him other merchandise for vending i
- 450 The Three Hundred and Ninety-first Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and go
- 449 Now when it was the next night and that was The Three Hundred and Seventy-eighth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter ni
- 448 Now as soon as the Sultan heard these last two couplets he made certain that the damsel was aware of his quality. She did not leave off her lute-playing till near daylight, when she rose and retired and presently brought in a breakfast befitting her degre
- 447 All this and the Youth still sat there without being seen. But when the dung-smoke thickened, his eyes brimmed and he could not but shed tears, and the more smoke there was the more his eyes watered and big drops flowed till at last all the Kohl was washe
- 446 The Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Night, Dunyazad said to her, "Allah upon thee, O my sister, an thou be other than sleepy, finish for us thy tale that we may cut short the watching of this our latter night!" She replied, "With love and goo
- 445 Supplemental Nights.Volume 14.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.As my first and second volumes (Supplemental) were composed of translated extracts from the Breslau Edition of The Nights, so this tome and its successor (vols. iv. and v.) comprise my version fr
- 444 wolf!" [FN#436] Again the old notion of maternal and paternal instincts; but the children dont often seem in folk-tales, to have a similar impulsive affection for their unknown parents. [FN#437] Colotropis gigantea. [FN#438] Rkshashas and rksha.s.s a
- 443 [FN#401] A holy man whose austerities have obtained for him supernatural powers.[FN#402] Also called "Story of the King and his Four Ministers."There is another but wholly different Tamil romance ent.i.tled the "Alaksa Kath," in which