Contents.

Chapter		Page
I.	[The Three Deaf Men]	1
II.	[Why Brâhmaṇs cannot eat in the Dark]	5
III.	[The Soothsayer’s Son]	11
IV.	[Raṇavîrasiṅg]	36
V.	[Charity alone Conquers]	65
VI.	[Mr. Won’t Give and Mr. Won’t Leave]	86
VII.	[Mr. Mighty-of-his-Mouth]	93
VIII.	[The Mother-in-Law became an Ass]	102
IX.	[The Story of Appayya]	107
X.	[The Brâhmiṇ Girl that Married a Tiger]	119
XI.	[The Good Husband and the Bad Wife]	131
XII.	[The Good Wife and the Bad Husband]	135
XIII.	[The Lost Camel]	140
	[The Three Calamities]	143
	[The Honest but Rash Hunter]	155
	[The Brâhmaṇ’s Wife and the Mungoose]	162
	[The Faithless Wife and the Ungrateful Blind Man]	165
	[The Wonderful Mango Fruit]	171
	[The Poisoned Food]	179
	[Eating up the Protector]	184
XIV.	[The Monkey with the Tom-Tom]	187
XV.	[Pride goeth before a Fall]	190
XVI.	[Good will grow out of Good]	194
XVII.	[Light makes Prosperity]	202
XVIII.	[Chandralêkhâ and the Eight Robbers]	210
XIX.	[The Conquest of Fate]	230
XX.	[The Brâhmaṇ Priest who became an Amildâr]	248
XXI.	[The Gardener’s Cunning Wife]	257
XXII.	[Keep it for the Beggar]	262
XXIII.	[Good Luck to the Lucky One]	267
XXIV.	[Retaliation]	274
XXV.	[The Beggar and the Five Muffins]	280
XXVI.	[The Brahmarâkshas and the Hair]	285
	[Notes]	290