Folk-tales of Kashmir
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Folk-tales of Kashmir
(Trübner's Oriental series, 61 . India : language and literature ; 14)
Routledge, 2000, c1888
[Reprinted ed.]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published in 1888 by Trübner & co. Reprinted in 2000 by Routledge" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First Published in 2000. This is Volume XIV of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Collated in 1888, this is a collection of folk-tales by the author who was a missionary who had the primary object in collecting these tales was to obtain some knowledge of Kashmiri, which .is a purely colloquial language; and a secondary object was to ascertain something of the thoughts and ways of the people.
Table of Contents
- The seven-legged beast
- The cat who became a queen
- Good King Hatam
- Metempsychosis
- The charmed ring
- The crow-girl
- A lach of rupees for a bit of advice
- The ogress-queen
- The goldsmith and his friends
- The tale of a princess
- The prince who was changed into a ram
- Saiyid and said
- The cruel merchant
- The man from Shiraz
- Shabrang, prince and thief
- The troublesome friend
- The wicked stepmother
- True friendship
- Three blind men
- All for a pansa
- Pride abrased
- The two brothers
- The base friend
- Haya Band and Zuhra Khotan
- The clever jackal
- A stupid boy
- Four princes turned into stones
- The brave princess
- Three princes
- The diligent king
- The ivory city and its fairy princess
- A strange request
- The unjust king and wicked goldsmith
- The philosopher's stone
- How the wicked sons were duped
- A stupid husband and his clever wife
- The prayerful faqir
- Unity is strength
- The pir of Phattapur
- The sagacious governor
- Their only ruby
- The jackal-king
- The black and white beards
- The story of a weaver
- The robbers robbed
- The young gambling merchant
- The day-thief and the night-thief
- The cunning goldsmith
- How the princess found her husband
- The clever parrot
- The malecontent cured
- The stupid peasant
- Karm ya Dharm
- Four wicked sons and their luck
- Sharaf the thief
- A king and his treacherous wazir
- The shipwrecked prince
- Gagar Wol and his servant Ratun
- The wicked queens
- The four princes
- The jogi's daughter
- Gullala Shah
- Why the fish laughed
- Nagray and Himal
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