The Baitāl Pachchisī: Or, The Twenty-five Tales of a SpriteW.H. Allen & Company, 1871 - 181 sider |
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abode arrived art thou ascetic asked attend beautiful became become began to say beholding BENGALI Birbar body Brah Brahman Brahman's daughter-in-law brought burning-ground city named companion courtesan demon devotee DUNCAN FORBES entered eyes father feet washed fruit Garur gave girl give head heard hearing these words hence Hindi husband Indra instant Iron Age jewels jungle King Bir Vikramājīt king replied king summoned King Vikram king's LL.D majesty marriage matter merchant's daughter mind minister minister's minister's son monarch mother Muldeva night old woman palace parrot perceived Persian Language pilgrimage pleased possess practise prince princess queen religious returned Royal 8vo SANSCRIT seated sent servant shastra shoulder sitting sleep sprite story sword TALE temple of Devi thee thence Thereupon the king thief things thou wilt took Translated tree Ujjain Urdu Vishnu wealth weeping whole wife worship
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Side 127 - The more they rub sandal-wood, the more it gives out its perfume; and the more they go on peeling the sugarcane, and cutting it up into pieces, the more does its flavour increase; and the more they pass gold through the fire, the more surpassingly beautiful does it become.' Those who are noble do not give up their natural qualities even on losing their lives. What matters it whether men praise them or blame them? What matters it whether riches abide with them or not? What does it signify whether...
Side 178 - ... towards the village to get something to eat, and in the meantime a body of Bhils came and surrounded him, and asked him to throw down his arms. On hearing this, the king commenced discharging arrows, and they did the same from their side. Thus did the fight last for three hours, and several of the Bhils were slain. In the meantime, an arrow struck the king's forehead with such force that he reeled and fell, and one of them came up and cut off the king's head. When the queen and princess saw the...
Side 86 - ... her to come. The youth said: "This affair is like jewels without apparel; or food without clarified butter ; or singing out of tune ; all these things are alike. In the same way, dirty garments take away beauty, bad food saps the strength, a wicked wife takes away life, a bad son ruins the family. What a woman does not do is of little moment, for she does not give utterance to the thoughts of her mind ; and what is at the tip of her tongue she does not reveal, and what she does, she does not...
Side 177 - After he had penetrated several miles into the jungle, the day broke, and a village came in view. Then, leaving the queen and princess seated beneath a tree, he went himself towards the village to get something to eat, and in the meantime a body of Bhils came and surrounded him, and asked him to throw down his arms.
Side 178 - Come let us look for them, and if we find them I will give her whose foot is the largest to thee, and I will take the other for myself." Having entered into this mutual compact, they went forward, and soon perceived the two women seated on the ground. They were delighted at finding them, and seating them on their horses in the manner agreed upon, they brought them home. The prince took possession of the queen, as her feet were the largest, and the king took the princess, and they were married accordingly.
Side 117 - On this he took the magic pill out of his mouth and became transformed into a man. Thus he regularly transformed himself into a man by night, and into a woman by day. After that, indeed, great love existed between the two of them." " In short, six months passed away in this manner, and the minister's son returned. On the one hand, the people hearing of his arrival, began to rejoice...
Side 6 - I am the daughter of a god; I was practising religious austerities in heaven > I have now come into this wild.
Side 5 - There was in this city a very liberal king, named Chandrabhan. One day he went forth casually into the jungle; when, what should he behold but an ascetic hanging, head downwards, from a tree, and sustaining himself by inhaling smoke alone — neither receiving anything from any one, nor speaking to any one. Perceiving this state of his, the king returned home, and seating himself in his court, said, 'whoever will bring this ascetic here shall receive a lakh of rupees.
Side 7 - ... the city, slew the child, repaired to another jungle, and began to perform penance. And after some time that king died, and the devotee completed his penance." " The short of the story is this, that you three men have been born under one asterism, one conjunction, and in one moment. You took birth in a king's house; the second was an oilman's (child); the third, the devotee, was born in a potter's house. You still govern here, while the oilman's son was the ruler of the infernal regions; but...
Side 161 - Then, hearing the sound of the people's weeping, he went there, and what does he behold but his wife burning with a strange man! He, also, being distracted with love, burnt himself to death in the same fire. The people of the city, hearing this intelligence, began saying one to another, ' Neither has eye seen, nor ear heard of so wonderful an event!