INDEX

Abbot of Canterbury and K. John, [155]

Actions, six, against one man, [171]

Adikāramas beheaded, [151]

Aet-kanda Lēniyā or Lihiniyā = Rukh or Garuḍa, [291], [296];
assists Prince, [293], [299];
carries off elephant, [293];
Sumerian idea, [300];
youth goes for its milk, [296].
See Rukh

Aewariyakkā Mulakkā, story of, [320], [321]

Adoption of child by birds, [121], [124], [125], [127], [128]

Alvarez, Father Francis, exorcised locusts, [43]

Amu, a small grain, [72]

Amuna, measure of 5·7 bushels, [55], [295]

Anga, a Gangetic kingdom, [39], [40]

Animals bought by Prince, [278], [301];
offer to marry women, [113];
protect youth, [299];
receive information from gods, [19];
with trees and road condemn man, [340], [341];
warnings by:—Aet-kanda Lēnī, [297];
bear, [298];
cat, [123], [124], [126];
crocodile, [299];
crows, [125], [300];
Demon Hound, [298];
dog, [15], [123], [124], [126];
fish, [86];
jackal, [300];
leopard, [356];
lizard, [14];
parrot, [97], [122], [124], [126];
peacock, [300];
storks, [121], [127];
woodpecker, [19]

Appā, light rice cake, [78]

Appearances not to be trusted, [232]

Arabian Nights, [33]

Ārakshā, protective written spells and diagrams, [15], [147]

Ashes offered for sale, [106]

Ass-driver miscounts asses, [259]

Asuras, superior to Gods, [47], [50]

Aṭasil, eight precepts of Buddha, kept by lay devotees (Upāsakās), [354]

Ayiyā, elder brother, honorific suffix or address, [21], [68], [69], [80], [83], [85], [221], [222], [235]

Bali, or Vali, K., his five sons, [40]

Bali Tiyannā, priest for planetary services, [18]

Banga, or Vanga, a Gangetic kingdom, [40]–42

Barbet, its call, [3]

Barter, [21];
bull for bill-book, [337];
cart and bulls for horse, [306];
dog for waterpot, [306];
fish for hoe, [306];
goat for dog, [306];
goods, [21], [305], [306];
hoe for ox, [306];
horse for goat, [306];
leaf for fish, [306];
ox for two cakes, [306];
waterpot for shave, [306];
wife for bull, [337]

Bathing in boiling water, [60];
in warm water, [83], [87], [98], [281]

Bear and youth, [298];
kills man, [299], [321]

Beating converts old women into girls, [109]–111

Bed of glass, [61]

Bell rung to call absent King, [133]

Bell worship, [352]

Berawa caste, tom-tom beaters and weavers, [28], [249], [252] ff.

Betel, leaves presented to sooth-sayer, [180], [182];
vine, [364];
protected by bullock’s skull, [11]

Bhārunda bird = Rukh, [300]

Bhūta, frightened by man, [149];
thought his reflection a real figure, [149]

Bihangama = Rukh, [300];
dung a remedy for blindness and poison, [300]

Bird and eggs, [201], [204];
and grains of corn, [204], [205]

Bird-lime, [179]

Birds adopt child:—Crows, [125];
eagles, [128];
storks, [121], [124], [127]

Birds bring presents for girl, [121], [124], [125], [127]

Birth signal:—Chain, iron or silver, shaken, [131]

Black storks, [7];
adopt child, [121];
carry turtle, [234], [239]

Blindness caused by father, [130];
by King, [187], [276], [277];
by magic, [272];
by sight of Prince, [173];
by Yakā, [146];
cured by burning flowers on eyes, [173], [177];
by rubbing fruit on them, [90];
by ointment or medicine, [275]–277;
by spell, [131]

Blue clothes of Princesses, [271]

Blue lotus in river, [117]–119;
in sea, [298]

Boar and jackal, [359];
jumps into fire, [290];
killed by lion, [360]

Boars kill and eat Rākshasa, [371];
kill lion, [371];
kill tiger, [371]

Bola, [69], [73], [77], etc.;
bolan, [77], [122], [223];
bolawu, [224]

Borrowing clothes by litigant, [322], [327], [331]

Boy and leopard, [357];
burns house, [108];
floating in river, [108];
steals fruit, [109].
See Youth

Brāhmaṇa carried jackal, [347], [348];
created first from earth, [48];
his investments, [306];
made first woman, [49];
mark of, [97];
rides on Rukh, [251], [300]

Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin, [244]

Bridegroom and parents fetch bride, [58]

Bridge, [138]

Broom, a demon scarer, [50]

Brothers, seven marry seven sisters, [100]

Buddhas, becoming a thousand, [232], [241]

Buddhist creed, [14];
precepts (sil), [349], [354]

Buffalo, bathing, [7];
price of, [181], [304];
dead, revived, [102]

Bullock’s skull protective, [11]

Bulls offer to marry women, [113]

Bull, stone, controlled by nail in head, [168]

Bum-bum the tom-tom beater, [351]

Burning of house, [106], [108]

Buttresses on trees, [5]

Cakes, of snakes’ eggs turn Queen into cobra, [132];
pounded in mortar, [72], [78];
Gamarāla’s, [219]

Calf borne by bull, [233]

Call to temple service, [14]

Camels’ flesh as food, [176]

Campā, capital of Anga state, [40]

Carving figure by Princess, [98]

Castes in folk-tales, [27]–30

Cat assists gambler, [175], [177];
pious, [345]–354

Cattle-fold, [12], [102], [191], [192]

Celestial bodies near house tops, [50]

Centre of country, or earth, [150], [153], [154]

Chain shaken as birth signal, [131]

Character of kings, [36]

Charcoal, magical, creates fire, [68], [70];
white mark by, [292]

Charms against dreams, [15];
against snake poison, [25]

Chena, [2];
cultivation, [3], [17], [19];
watch hut, [2], [169], [170], [172];
path blocked by demon, [16]

Cheṭṭi caste, [30]

Child, abandoned, [120], [124]–126, [173], [191];
eaten, [187], [271]–273;
in exchange for mango, [302];
name given by strangers, [303];
sold, [36], [94];
own, unrecognised, [254]

Cleverest animals, hare and turtle, [35]

Club to turn old women into girls, [109]–111

Cobra assumes human form, [132];
climbs tree to kill young eagles or Rukhs, [292], [300];
cured by Princess, [64];
fangs removed, [24];
gives treasure, [64];
guarding pool requires human offering, [58];
imprisons Prince, [59];
killed, [133], [158], [267], [292], [300];
king, [269];
pretended captures, [25];
swallows horses, [269];
tame, [23], [24]

Cobra Stone, brilliance, [266], [269];
fatal light of, [266];
grants all desires, [269];
light intercepted by cow-dung, [267];
or horse-dung, [269]

Cock, jewelled golden, [67]–70;
silver, [264], [268]

Coins:—Kahawaṇa, [33];
kahawaṇa (golden ?), [348];
masurama, [33], [62], [189], [191]–193, [228]–230, [278]–280, [294]–296, [313], [315];
panam, gold, [259];
pence, [262], [263], [304];
rupee, [304], [313]; salliya, [85], [87], [139];
tuttuwa, [73], [74], [304], [306];
warāgan, [182]

Consent of parents or guardians necessary before marriage, [63], [102], [127]

Cookery, by Princess or Queen, [33], [98], [161], [270], [271], [279], [291];
cakes, [73], [74], [101], [220];
camels’ flesh, [176];
pumpkin milk-rice, [211];
rice, [85], [86], [129], [309]

Cormorant and crab, [346]

Corn store, [10], [55], [78], [109], [110], [368]

Corpse set up and killed, [103]

Counting incident:—Ass driver, ten asses, [259];
Chinese guard, six things, [259];
Guru Paramarta, five disciples, [259];
Kaḍambāwa men, twelve, [258];
pigs, twelve, [259];
weavers, seven, [259]

Courtesan assisted by cat, [175];
has gambling house, [174];
imprisons losers, [174], [175];
marries Prince, [175]

Cow-dung, [10];
winnowing basket stops light of cobra stone, [267]

Cowry brings guilty snake, [91]

Cow, magic, of jōgī, [276];
Sinhalese, one cubit long, [276]

Creation legend, [47];
Brāhmaṇa created first, [48];
obstruction by Dānavas, [49];
Vishnu Purāna on, [49];
woman made by Brāhmaṇa, [49]

Crab and crane, [345];
and cormorant, [346];
and heron, [342];
and pelican, [345];
and pond heron, [342]–345

Crane and crab, [345];
makara, [346]

Creed, Buddhist, [14]

Crickets assist Prince, [300], [301]

Crocodile, [5];
and jackal, [380], [381];
and man, [339], [341];
and monkey, [381];
cheated by jackal, [218], [240];
of sea, [298], [299];
its milk, [298];
shams death, [380];
wags its tail, [380];
warns youth, [299];
wedding of, [216];
wounded, returns next day, [362]

Crops in chena, [3]

Crown, [152];
golden, [144]

Crow, pious, [354];
warns girl, [300]

Crying tom-tom beaters and weavers, [260], [261]

Cultivation, chena, [17];
rice, [17]

Custom on arrival of strangers, [139]

Dānavas obstruct creation, [49]

Darter (Plotus), [6]

Days, unlucky, [18]

Dead cow revived by wand, [102]

Deaf persons, two, [136];
three, [135];
four, [134]–135

Death in thumb, [157]

Death, payment for causing, [103]

Deities, Indian, rarely mentioned, [37]

Deity, gives information to animals, [19];
to man in dream, [58];
goads possessed person, [289];
guardian, [173], [175], [222], [223];
inside elephant, [249], [250], [251];
outwitted, Senasurā, [55];
Śiva, [56], [251], [381]

Demon and pandit, [215];
blocked path, [16], [146];
confined in bottle, [33];
cry of, [13];
Hound, [297];
assists youth, [298], [299];
warns youth, [298];
scarers:—Broom, [50];
invectives, [172];
gun-shot, [146];
spells and diagrams, [146], [147], [171].
See Yakā

Demons inhabit north, [13]

Deer and girl, [284];
mouse, [4], [35], [213], [256], [340]

Departure, manner of, [15]

Deposition of King, [152], [153]

Depth of sea, [154]

Destruction of world, [49]

Dēvas, [150]

Dēvatāwā, godling, dwelt in tree, [158];
feeds on smoke of lamp, [158];
guards treasure, [249]

Devil and husbandman, their division of crops, [324]

Difficulty of killing hero, [193], [299]

Diribari-Lakā, keeps gambling-house, [174];
imprisons and enslaves losers, [174], [175];
marries Prince, [175]

Dog, demon, [297];
party-coloured, [306]

Dohṭa karanawā, to give poisonous bite, [157]

Dola piḍēni, small square frames made of plantain stems, on which offerings to demons are placed, [147]

Dream causes abandonment of journey, [16], [260];
charms against, [15];
interpretation of, [16], [260], [264], [268], [269];
truth of, [141];
warning in, [58]

Dress of villagers, [8], [103]

Ducks, pair of, beheaded to revive Princess, [269]

Durayās, porter caste, [29], [348];
stories of, [114], [317]

Eagle, white-tailed, [6];
girl carried off and reared by, [128];
lion-headed, of Lagash, [300]

Eating, mode of, [12], [281], [309]

Ēdanḍa, foot-bridge of tree trunk, [104], [305]

Effect of Yakā’s attack on man, [146]

Egret, [5], [6], [342]

Elephant, [3];
assists Prince, [295];
kills jackal, [316];
selects King, [65], [81], [90]–92, [99]

Elopement, [41], [63], [99], [127]

Emal bisawā, [125]

Escape while arrows are fetched, [96], [99];
while carried on bed, [357], [358]

Evils, all due to evil spirits, [16]

Evil eye, bullock’s skull against, [11];
effect of, [15]

Evil mouth, [15]

Exorcism of flies, [18];
locusts, [43]

Eyes plucked out, [130], [272], [276], [277];
replaced, [131], [275]

Fakīr changes letter, [276], [277]

Fan shaken to call Prince, [133]

Farmer’s wife and tiger, [215]

Fate, [19], [314]

Father’s name remembered on performing difficult feat, [140]

Feather dress, removable, [310], [311]

Female quail and its egg, [201]

Fever, treatment for, [338]

Field, rice, [6]

Figure carved, [98];
made of rice flour, [303]

Figurine, injury through, [167], [168]

Finger-nail, food carried under, [53], [101];
poisonous, [125], [126], [128]

Fire-flies fried, [294];
assist Prince, [296]

Fire kills Rākshasa, [70], [71], [290]

First cooking, [22];
fire, [22];
fruits, [20], [309];
hair-cutting, [72]–74;
milk taken, [304]

Fish, sun-dried, speaks, [86];
saves Prince, [87]

Five hundred carts, [192];
cattle, [191];
masuran, [313], [315]

Flies, exorcism of, [18]

Flight through air, [59], [60], [64], [66]

Flower, floating, comes into hand, [118], [119];
silver, [264], [268]

Flying horse, [66], [277], [379]

Fly killed on head, [259], [319], [321]

Folk-tales contain picture of ancient village life, [35]

Food, Indian, [176];
and clothes obtained at road-side shops, [21];
carried under finger-nail, [52], [101];
given to man by Yakā, [148], [149];
King’s, prepared by royal family, [33], [270];
magic, fills pot, [53], [101];
primitive, [51]

Fool in well, [317], [318]

Foolish Brāhmaṇa, [263], [347];
Gamarāla, [322], [325];
Gamarāla’s son, [336];
judge, [230];
King, [199], [334];
leopard, [35], [213];
man, [228], [262], [317], [318];
tiger, [35], [215];
tom-tom beaters or weavers, [249], [250], [252], [262]

Forest, animals in, [3], [4], [173], [175];
resembles ocean, [1]

Fortune from mouse, [197];
from carrying butter, [197], [198], [306];
from glass-ware, [198]

Fortune-telling, [23], [101], [173], [289]

Four tasks of Prince, [295]–298, [301];
four tom-tom beaters, [262]

Frame for cooking pots, [10], [338];
for demon offerings, [147]

Frere, Sir Bartle, on cookery by King’s family, [33];
on poisonous snake’s biting boy, [24]

Frog Prince, [67]

Gāla, a fold for cattle or goats, [2], [102], [230], [367], [368]

Galgamuwa tank, in N.-W. Prov., [375]

Gama-gāēni, wife of Gamarāla, [319], [336];
treated for fever, [338]

Gama-mahagē, wife of Gamarāla, [124], [219], [328], [329], [284];
abandons child, [124], [125]

Gama-mahayiyā, wife of Gamarāla, [125]

Gama-puta, son of Gamarāla, [319], [336]–338;
exchanged bull for bill-hook, [337];
wife for bull, [337];
his wife’s illness, [336];
treats bill-hook for fever, [338];
treats mother for fever, [338]

Gama-rāhami = Gamarāla, [326], [327]

Gamarāla, [78], [126], [129], [284];
abandons child, [124], [125];
duties, [27];
keeps many horses, [228]

Gamarāla and foolish son, [319], [320];
and leopard, [367], [368];
and washerman, [322], [325];
their cattle-grazing, [325], [326];
their exchange of timber, [324], [329];
lawsuits, [322], [327];
quarrels, [326];
sharing cattle, [323], [326];
chena, [322];
onion garden, [323];
rice field, [323]

Gamarāla’s cakes, [219]–223;
cat, [350];
search for stars, [284];
village sold, [284]

Gamayā, village headman, [201]–204, [208]

Gambling, [22], [30], [174], [177], [178]

Gambler assisted by cat, [175], [177]

Garā Yakā, [318]

Garuḍa in Ceylon, [251], [300];
man rides on, [251];
nature of, [300];
races turtle, [244].
See Aet-kanda Lēniyā and Rukh.

Gem, contained sand, [140];
cut with sword, [140];
drops from mouth on laughing, [90];
stones given to Princes, [80], [82], [83], [89]

Gifts, magic, [68], [71];
King’s, [99], [133], [365], [366]

Giants accompany Prince, [161];
imprisoned by Rākshasī, [162];
restore Prince’s life, [165];
fight of, [313]–315

Gilding woman’s body, [290]

Girl, at Rākshasa’s house, [121], [124], [125], [163]–165;
eyes plucked out and restored, [130], [131];
figure made of flour, [303];
her thief-lovers, [330] ff.;
imprisoned in tree, [269];
in golden swing, [129];
storks’, [120] ff.;
wants Nikini, [284] ff.

Glass bed, [61], [62]

Glass Princess, [57]–65;
becomes mare, [64];
magical gifts, [63];
power of flight, [59], [60], [64]

Goat and jackal, [361], [362];
and lion, [215];
and tiger, [215];
foreign, [306];
price, [304]

Gods give son, [336];
inform animals of coming events, [19];
make man, [48];
unable to create earth, [47];
visit men in men’s disguise, [51], [55], [157], [223]

Golden branches, [269];
cock, jewelled, [67]–70;
kaekiri, [129], [131], [132];
leaves, [269];
peacock, [70], [71];
salt chillies, [367];
shoot, [273];
swing, [129];
tree, [264], [268]

Goods given away, [306]

Goonetilleke, W., on folk-tales, [31]

Goonewardene, E. G., folk-tales by, [197], [199]

Grain measures, [133], [208]

Grateful animals, [295], [296];
Aet-kanda Lēnī, [293];
cobra, [64];
dog, [365];
jackal, [373];
monkey, [279]–282;
Rākshasī, [163];
Yakā, [142], [144]

Ground Cuckoo, [13], [349], [351]

Guard, Chinese, counted articles, [259]

Guardian deity, [222], [223];
protects Prince, [173], [175]

Guru Paramarta and disciples count themselves, [259]

Gypsies, [22]–24;
their cobras, [23]–25

Hair, cuts iron tree, [64];
first cutting, [72], [73];
knot’s absence a mark of slavery (?), [84];
Rākshasī’s causes fire, [71]

Hare and jackal, [209] ff.;
and tom-tom beaters, [255];
devil-dancer, [349]–352;
feigns death, [209], [210]

Hay, Drummond, on poisonous snakes’ biting charmers, [24]

Headmen, Kandian, grades and duties, [27]

Heaven, visit to, [76], [106], [301]

Heron and crab, [342];
pond, [7], [342]–345

Heṭṭiyā or Seṭṭiyā, man of Cheṭṭi caste, [30], [82]–89, [139]–145, [287]–288

Hidden Prince, [69];
treasure, [64]

Hides, cattle, not bought, [104]

Hokkiyē, cry of jackal, [316]

Hopscotch, [193], [194]

Horoscope, [101], [173]

Horse, borne by oil-mill, [229], [233];
eaten by tree, [233];
flying, [64], [66], [277], [379];
many kept by Gamarāla, [228];
price, 50 masuran, [229];
speaking, [199];
two out of pumpkin, [233];
white, of King, [144], [199]

House burnt, [106], [108];
deity, [222];
Kandian, [10];
surrounded by seven, [83]

Hunchback and robin, [207]

Husbandman and devil, division of crops, [324]

Huts, of gypsies, [22];
watch, [2], [169], [170], [172]

Hyaena and hare, [233]

Idiots, twenty-five, [318]

Imgig, lion-headed eagle, emblem of Lagash, [300]

Immortality through eating golden peacock, [71]

Improvisation of stanzas, [28]

Incense box, [308]

Indra, [223];
creates Brāhmaṇa from earth, [48];
creates Princess, [157];
teaches use of jak fruit, [51];
work of, [150][152]

Infanticide, [36], [101], [120], [124]–126, [173]

Iron house against Yakā, [137], [145]

Iron tree cut by hair, [60], [64], [66]

Jacana, [7]

Jackal, [204];
advises man, [367];
against leopard, [368];
and boar, [359];
and Brāhmaṇa, [347], [348];
and crocodile, [216]–218, [380], [381];
and goat, [361];
and hare, [209];
and leopard, [367];
and lion, [316], [359];
and Mahādeo, [381];
and turtle, [234];
assists man, [340], [341], [367], [373];
as witness, [231]–233;
cheated by lizard, [240];
cheated by turtles, [235] ff.;
cheats crocodile, [240];
cheats hare, [211];
cheats scavengers, [251];
cheats Śiva, [251];
cheats tom-tom beaters, [249], [250];
Dēvatāwā inside bullock, [251];
inside elephant, [249]–251;
eats dainties of lion or tiger, [360], [362], [363];
enmity against crabs, [381];
hares, [212];
gets washed, [212];
grateful, [373];
induces King to marry daughter to weaver, [283];
judgment, [339]–341;
leopard’s preceptor, [213];
offers to marry women, [113];
pious, [354];
proud, [316];
settles lawsuit, [228]–233;
skin dress, [310];
titles, [213], [230], [316], [367];
warns girl, [300];
wounded by knife in fruits, [358]

Jacket made by Princess, [94]

Jak fruit, eating taught by Indra, [51]

Janel Siññā, Mr., [278];
his cities, [282]

Jayawardana, D. A., legends of primitive times, [50]

Jewelled ring, [143]–145, [295]

Jōgī, white cow of, [276];
three became copper pots when killed, [269]

Journey abandoned through dream, [16], [260]

Jungle and forest, appearance of, [1]–4

Jungle-fowl, [4], [204], [322], [349], [353]

Kāccalē = Ground Cuckoo, [349]

Kaḍambāwa men and bush, [257];
and hares, [255];
and mouse-deer, [256];
count themselves, [258];
interpret dream, [260];
journey to Puttalam, [253]

Kaekiri, a small cucumber, [3], [117], [120], [125], [126], [140], [365];
golden, [129]–132

Kattāēpahuwa, story of origin of name, [376]

Kahawaṇa, [33];
golden (?), [348]

Kālinga, Indian kingdom, [37], [40]–43;
Kings and Queens came from, [37], [38]

Kandian castes in folk-tales, [27] ff.;
headmen, [27];
houses, [10];
village, [6], [8], [26]

Kayiyā, a party of labourers assisting a person without pay, [52]

Keṭala, aquatic plant, [235], [381]

Kettledrum, double, used at temples, [14], [238]

Kettle with twelve spouts, [87]

Kindness rewarded, [16], [365]

King carries off Princess, [94];
cheated, [334];
chops firewood, [265];
death sentence on Prince, [36], [66], [80], [91], [137], [160], [173], [278], [279], [291];
on Princesses, [270];
dreams of gold or silver tree, [264], [269];
gifts to girls, [365], [366];
loses sight or dies on seeing son, [173], [177];
marries Rākshasī or ogress, [186], [190], [272], [276], [277];
rescues girl from Rākshasa, [303];
sells firewood, [65], [66];
seized by Yakā, or ogre, [141], [145];
wicked, [191]

Kings in folk-tales are Parumakas, [34];
unfavourably depicted, [36]

Kinnarā, [30], [95], [98];
and parrots, [224]–226;
curly hair, [30];
stories by, [375];
villages, [30]

Kitten assists Prince, [301]

Kitul seeds, story of, [197]

Knife run through fruits, [355], [358]

Kohomba deity, [317]

Kokkā, large wading bird, [234]

Kulēbakā flowers cure blindness, [173], [177];
in forest of Gods, [173];
guarded by Yakās, [175], [176]

Kuppāyama, Roḍiya hamlet, [30]

Kūrmarsha, [243]

Kuwēnī and Wijaya, [167]

Lagash, lion-headed eagle the emblem of, [300]

Lāḷa, a district of Vanga, [41]

Lan̥ka, or Lakdiva, name of Ceylon, [38]

Lattī’s man, [76], [77], [78]

Lawsuits, [21];
Gamarāla v. washerman, [322], [327];
servant v. oil-mill owner, [229] ff.;
thief v. merchant, [331], [332];
weaver-bird v. monkey, [247]

Lēniyā or Lihiniyā, Aet-kanda = Rukh, [291]–293, [296], [297], [299];
assists Prince, [293], [299];
carries off elephant, [293];
nest in tree, [292], [296]

Leopard, [3];
and jackal, [367];
and mouse-deer, [213];
and lizard, [355]–358;
carries off boy, [357];
fear of lizard, [357], [358];
noosed, [368];
stupidest animal, [35];
warns man, [356]

Letter changed by Fakīr, [276], [277];
by Princess, [195], [275], [276];
by Sannyāsi, [276];
by Yōgī, [277];
in orange, [95];
sent, [144], [188], [193]–195, [274]–277

Life index:—Barley plant, [165];
blue-lotus flower, [162], [164];
lime trees, [162], [164];
nosegay, [165];
plant, [165];
tree, [165]

Life concealed in bees, [166], [167];
birds, [166], [167];
box, [167];
brightness of sword, [167];
cocks, [166];
golden parrot, [190];
lemon, [167];
mountain, [167];
necklace, [166];
parrot, [167];
pigeon, [166];
snow, [166];
spinning-wheel, [166];
starling, [166];
sword, [164], [166], [167];
tree, [167];
veranda pillar, [166]

Lightning unlucky, [174], [227], [313], [359], [360]

Lion, [35];
and goat, [215];
and jackal, [316], [359];
and turtle, [241];
cheated by turtle, [242] ff., [244]

Lion-throne, [152]

Lizard, [3], [19];
and leopard, [355]–358;
cheats jackal, [240];
chirp, an omen, [14]

Locusts, exorcised, [43], [44]

Loku-ammā, step-mother, [116]–118, [130]–133;
mother’s elder sister, [115]

Loku-māma, eldest uncle, [102]

Longing of pregnancy, [116]–118, [130], [284], [285]

Lotus, blue, [117]–119, [298];
in Creation legend, [47], [48];
pink, [119]

Lucky hour for beginning works, [18]

Lynx and tiger, [215]

Maccocalingæ and Modogalingæ, Gangetic tribes, of Pliny, [40]

Madahapola, P. B., folk-tale by, [350]

Maḍuwa, an open shed, [8]

Magadha, [39]

Magic, cow, [276];
figurine, [167], [168];
fruit mango, [90], [116];
kaekiri, [117];
gifts, three, [68];
four, [71];
horse, [277], [379];
rice, [276], [277];
seat, [99];
singing water, [276];
turtle dove, [80];
wand, [102], [109], [111]

Mahādeo and jackal, [56], [251], [381]

Mahagē, well-to-do village woman, [129]

Maha-Mudā, Yaksanī, marries Prince, [176]

Maharājani, form of addressing king, [199], [200]

Man and crocodile, [339]–341;
and snake, [341];
assisted by jackal, [340], [341], [367]–369, [373];
condemned by animals, trees and road, [340], [341];
made from earth, [48]

Mango in exchange for child, [302];
tree, a dead woman, [116], [117]

Māra, Death, imprisoned in bottle, [33]

Margōsa tree planted for king, [334]

Mariyada Rāman, stories of, [37]

Marriage customs, [238], [240], [308];
to bridegroom’s sword, [58], [65]

Masurama (coin), [33], [62], [189], [191]–193, [228]–230, [278], [279], [294]–296, [313], [315];
measure for, [280]

Mātalangē Loku-appu, [108]

Midula, open ground in front of house, [10], [73], [74], [130], [163], [209]

Milk-rice, [13], [211]

Millet Trader, [72] ff.

Mini-geḍi, hawk’s-bell, [352]

Mini Ran Kukuḷā, jewelled golden cock, [67]

Minister, Chief, [154];
giant appointed, [315];
pay of, [189]

Mī-paeṭikkī, young mouse or rat, [308]

Money, [33];
kahawaṇa (golden ?), [348];
masurama, [62], [189], [191]–193, [228]–230, [278], [279], [294]–296, [313], [315];
panam, gold, [259];
pence, [262], [263], [304];
rupee, [181], [304], [313];
salliya, [85], [87], [139];
tuttuwa, [73], [74], [304], [306];
warāgan, [182]

Monk and Yakā, [375];
and boy, [320]

Monkey and crocodile, [381];
and Prince, [278];
and weaver-bird, [247];
brown, [5], [278];
grey, [3], [247];
induces King to marry daughter to Prince, [281];
skin dress, [310], [311]

Moon as a man, legend, [52];
travels in breezes, [53]

Mouse, dead, fortune from, [197];
jacket, [310]

Mouse maiden, cooks food, [309];
in incense box, [308];
reaps paddy, [309];
becomes Princess, [310]

Mouse-deer, [4], [35];
and leopard, [213];
and tiger, [340];
and tom-tom beaters, [256]

Müller-Hess, Prof., inscriptions translated, [38]

Mun̥, a small pulse grown in chenas, [3], [295], [296]

Mun-aeṭa Guruwā, [169];
re-born as Yakā, [170], [172]

Murders, frequent and unpunished, [36]

Murungā tree, [79], [88], [123], [124], [126], [323], [328]

Musical instruments, [238]

Naekata, [173], [323], [324]

Nāga or Nāgayā, [157];
takes form of cobra, [158];
belt, [158];
King, [267], [269];
killed by Prince, [267];
Princesses, [267];
beheaded, [268];
marry Princes, [268];
three were a golden tree, silver flower, and silver cock, [268];
stone, its qualities, [269]

Nagul-Munnā, [169]

Nari-nayidē, [230], [231], [239], [316], [340]

Nayidē, artificers’ caste, [28]

New Year, [22];
ceremonies at lucky hours, [22]

Nikini, story, [284];
non-existent, [285];
search for it, [286]

Niśśanka-Malla, K., [37], [43]

North, inhabited by demons, [13]

Number of stars, [150], [153], [154]

Oath, [158], [195];
by touching body, [93], [293], [298]

Obeisance, claims to, by Brāhmaṇas, [263];
men, [263];
tom-tom beaters, [262]

Obstacles created, three, [68], [70];
four, [71]

Ōḍra State, [40]

Offering, human, to cobra guarding pool, [58];
to Yakā, [147]

Office through eating bird, [90], [91]

Ogre = Rākshasa, [34];
characteristics, [145];
seizes King, [145]

Oil-mill gives birth to horse, [229], [233]

Olinda game at New Year, [22]

Omens, [14], [15], [260]

Owl, call thought to be cry of demons, [13]

Paddy, legend of, as woman, [52];
cooked in hell, [53]

Pandit and demon, [215];
wise, [199]

Paramour, [73], [157], [221], [287], [289]

Parrot, [14], [121]–127;
as Prince, [66];
gives warning, [97], [122], [124], [126]

Parrots, [14];
and Kinnarā, [224] ff.;
when netted escape by feigning death, [225], [227]

Parumaka, early Chief, termed King in folk-tales, [34]

Pāṭaliputta, capital of Magadha, [39]

Panams, gold, [259]

Path blocked by Yakā, [16], [146]

Peacock, golden, [70], [71];
warns girl, [300]

Pelican and crab, [345]

Pence, [262], [263], [304]

Peraeli-bāsa, [368]

Perēdā, [75]

Pied Robin and its song, [206]

Pigs saved by Prince assist him, [295];
count themselves, [259];
kill Rākshasa, [370], [371]

Pious cat, [349]–354;
crow, [354];
heron, [342];
jackal, [354]

Planets, influence of, [18]

Poison by powdered glass, antidote, [300]

Polyandry, [36], [115]

Polygamy, [36], [64], [145], [176], [177], [186], [262], [272]

Pond heron, [7];
and crab, [342]–345

Pool guarded by cobra, [58]

Portents, [16]:—
Favourable words, [14];
house lizard’s chirp, [14];
no obstruction on leaving house or starting on journey, [14], [15];
seeing first a person of superior rank, [14];
stepping over threshold with right foot, [14];
woodpecker’s cry, [19]

Portrait displayed, [99];
sent for approval before marriage, [57], [66]

Possession, [181], [182], [184];
sooth-saying due to goading by deity, [289]

Pots, cooking, stand for, [10], [338];
of oil, story, [304]

Potters’ caste, [28]

Pōya day, [14]

Preceptor, leopard’s, [213];
royal, [151]

Presents, magical, [68], [71];
by King, [99], [133], [365], [366]

Proud jackal, [316]

Prince abandons kingdom for wife, [93];
accompanied by animals, [277], [297]–299, [300], [301];
and monkey, [278] ff.;
and Yakā, [137] ff.;
assisted by animals:—
Ants, [301];
bear, [299];
crickets, [300], [301];
Demon Hound, [299];
elephants, [295];
fire-flies, [296];
frogs, [301];
kitten, [301];
pigs, [295];
rats, [61];
Rukh, [293], [299];
snake, [301];
turtle doves, [296];
Yakā, [142], [144];
as frog, [67];
as parrot, [66];
as tortoise or turtle, [71];
at nest of Aet-kanda Lēniyā or Rukh, [292], [296];
at Rākshasī’s house, [69];
at school, [93], [160];
beheads three Nāga Princesses at one stroke, [268];
brings wonderful articles, [276], [277], [301];
buys animals, [278], [301];
carried by Rukh, [293], [300];
changed into birds, [276];
chased by Rākshasas, [70], [71];
chops firewood, [265];
fights Rākshasa, [163];
hidden in trunk, [69];
hides robes of Princess, [291], [301];
imprisoned by cobra, [59];
killed by potter, [194];
kills cobra, [292], [300];
kills lizard in place of brother, [161];
kills Nāga King, [267];
kills ogre, [90];
kills Yakā, [143], [265], [274];
life in necklace, [166];
in sword, [164]–167;
lives with flower woman, [79], [87];
made horse-keeper, [139];
made shepherd, [141];
made slave, [84];
marries courtesan, [175];
marries mouseling, [308];
marries Nāga Princess, [268];
marries Yaksanī, [176];
saved by sun-dried fish, [87];
saves Aet-kanda Lēniyā’s young ones, [293];
ant, [301];
cricket, [300], [301];
eagles, [300];
elephants, [294];
fire-flies, [294];
frog, [301];
giants, [162];
monkey, [278];
pigs, [294];
turtle doves, [294];
seeks meaning of dream, [265];
selects Princess in dark room, [296];
sent by Rākshasī, [274], [276], [277];
maims Yaksanī and is served by her, [189];
sentenced to death, [36], [66], [80], [91], [137], [160], [173], [278], [279], [291];
tasks given, [66], [274], [276], [277], [295], [296];
thrown overboard, [87], [91];
binds Rākshasī’s daughter, [69];
visits Princess at night, [62], [66];
visits Indralōka, [301];
Nāgalōka, [267]

Princess alters letter, [195], [275], [276];
at Rākshasa’s house, [270];
bathed after puberty, [294];
bathes in river, [84], [138], [291];
becomes mare, [64];
becomes mouseling, [308];
carves figure, [98];
cures cobra, [64];
encloses letter in orange, [95];
escapes from captors or death, [95], [96], [99], [270], [271];
faithless, [157];
flying powers, [59], [64];
learns writing, [93];
magic gifts to Prince, [63];
made from Prince’s body, [157], [159];
made King, [99];
made school teacher, [97];
marries slave, [85];
offered to Yakā, [141], [143];
personates Brāhmaṇa, [96];
pricks finger to keep awake, [63], [66];
recognises Prince’s ring, [295];
robes hidden, [291], [301];
selected by Prince in dark room, [296];
sews jacket, [94];
sold, [36], [91], [94];
wears blue robe, [271]

Princesses, Nāga, [267];
marry Princes, [268]

Princesses, seven, [270], [281];
escape from Rākshasa, [271];
marry King, [272]

Puberty custom, [294]

Puñci-Ammā, step-mother, [89];
mother’s younger sister, [296]

Puṇḍra State, [40]

Purōhita Brāhmaṇa, [151]

Python seizes boy, [373]

Queen becomes cobra, [132];
sells firewood, [65], [66]

Queens eat children, [187], [272], [276], [277];
eyes plucked out, [187], [272], [276], [277];
twelve, [186]

Quail and its egg, [201]

Quartering and hanging at city gates, [86], [89]

Questions, two, [154];
three, [150], [155];
four, [153]

Race:—Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin, [244];
crane and butterfly, [244];
crane and crab, [244];
Garuḍa and turtle, [244];
lion and turtle, [242], [244]

Rāhami, [327], [328]

Rāhu, Asura Chief, assists in Creation, [47];
his divine form, [50];
planetary sign, [49]

Rājagaha, capital of Magadha, [39]

Raja Gurunnānsē, [151]

Rākshasa = ogre, [34];
afraid of fire, [70], [71];
and boars, [370];
at girl’s door, [122]–126, [128];
cannot straighten hair, [377];
creates mouth at crown of head, [303];
death by drinking, [124];
death in fire, [290];
eats daughter, [271];
eats girl’s figure, [303];
gives mango for child, [302];
head split, [303];
imprisons girl in tree, [269];
killed by boars, [370];
killed by thorn in head, [163];
King, [66], [71];
life in bees, birds, etc., [166], [167];
man’s servant, [376];
marries woman, [290];
mode of approach, [163]

Rākshasī, [67];
assists Prince, [163];
imprisons giants, [161], [162];
smells Prince, [69];
burnt, [70], [71]

Ran oncillāwa, golden swing, [129]

Rāsayā, Rāsi = Rākshasa (m. and f.), [34], [67]

Raṭēmahatmayās, principal district chiefs, [27];
beheaded, [151]

Raṭēwissa, [327]

Rat and cat, [351]–353;
assists gambler, [177];
eggs, [252];
male about to bear young, [233]

Rats come when thought of, [60], [61];
excavate tunnel, [61], [177];
saved from drowning, [59];
save elephant, [66]

Reaping chena, [19];
rice, [20]

Rewards given by Kings, [67], [90], [185], [266], [267], [315]

Rice cultivation, [17];
eating, [12], [86];
field, [1], [6];
magic, [276], [277];
night growing, [276];
originally huskless, [51];
threshing, [20];
strung on date spike transforms frog, [67], [70]

Riddle, [158], [215]

Ring cools boiling water, [63];
jewelled, [143], [295]

Road tax, [21]

Robin, pied, [206]

Roḍiyā, [29], [30], [372];
stories by, [364];
term of reproach, [73], [74]

Roll of cotton, [364]

Rosary, [349], [350]

Rukh, [291]–300 = Aet-kanda Lēniyā or Lihiniyā, [291];
Bhārunda bird, [300];
Bihangama, [300];
Garuḍa, [251], [300];
Imgig, [300];
Zū, [300];
assists Prince, [293], [299];
breeds in Ceylon, [251], [292], [296], [300];
carries off elephants, [293];
man rides on one, [251];
Sumerian idea, [300]

Rupee, [181], [304], [313]

Sack, man tied in, [104], [106], [110]

Sāēstara, [179]

Sahadeo, father of Śiva, [56], [251]

Sāhasa-Malla, K., [38]

Śakra appears as man, [51], [157];
created Princess out of Prince’s body, [157]

Sale of children, [36], [94]

Salliya, [85], [87], [139]

Samādama, [98]

Saman, God, [47], [48], [50], [223]

Sand of sea, King’s journey for, [285];
used in creation of earth, [48]

Sangha-raja, [153], [154]

Sannyāsi changes letter, [276];
seizes Yakā, [171]

Sapu-flowers’ Minister = leopard, [367]

Scarecrow, [230]

Scavengers cheated by jackal, [251]

School, [93], [96]–99, [160]

Sea, depth of, [154];
on fire, [233]

Seed collected after sowing, [296], [300], [301]

Self-acting bill-hook, [337];
sickle, [338]

Senasurā, deity, appears as old man, [55];
assists worshipper, [56];
his evil influence, [54];
gives book, [56];
legend of, [54]

Seṭṭiyā or Heṭṭiyā, [30], [82] ff., [139] ff., [287], [288]

Seven baskets, [122];
baths, [300];
brothers marry seven sisters, 100;
bundles of firewood, [122];
days, [48], [91], [308];
doors, [128];
family of, marry seven, [107];
gawwas, [53];
houses, [83];
jars of milk, [300];
pots of water, [100], [122], [125], [300];
mats, [100];
nights, [66];
quarts of money, [104];
Princes, [57];
Princesses, [57], [84], [270], [281];
Rākshasa girls, [271];
robbers, [317];
seas, [71];
trees planted, [334];
trunks, [69];
Vaeddās, [96], [98];
weavers, [259];
years, [81], [89]

Shed, road-side, for travellers (ambalama), [9], [61], [62], [63], [64], [94], [95], [138], [278], [279], [312]

Shops, road-side, [21], [85], [209]

Sickle gets fever, [338]

Sīgiris Siññō, the giant, [312], [313];
kills twenty flies, [312];
victor over giant and made Prime Minister, [314], [315]

Sīha-Bāhu, K., [41]

Sillu, Hopscotch, [193], [194]

Silver cock, flower, and tree, [264], [268], [269]

Sil rakinawā, [349], [354]

Sinhapura or Sīhapura, [37]–43

Sister kills sister, [114]

Śiva cheated by jackal, [56], [251], [381]

Sivalinga, God, [287]–289

Skin dresses:—Dove, jackal, monkey, mouse, tortoise-shell, woman, [310], [311]

Sky, near house-tops, [50]

Sleeping, lying east and west, [13]

Slaves branded when freed, [177];
hair-knot cut, [84];
losing gamblers enslaved, [174], [175], [177], [178]

Small Lion, title of jackal, [316]

Smith makes bow and arrows, [273]

Smiths’ caste, [27], [28]

Snake and man, [341];
assists Prince, [301];
bite cured by snake, [91];
by spell, [301];
brought by cowry, [91];
cakes made of eggs turn Queen into cobra, [132];
charms against its poison, [25];
killed, or cut in two, [133], [158], [267], [292];
poison brought, [301];
poisonous, bites charmer, [24]

Soothsaying, [180] ff., [289]

South, abode of Yama, [13]

Sovereignty through eating bird, cock, fruit, maina, mango, sheldrake, [90], [91];
turtle dove, [80],89

Speaking horse, [199]

Spell, against Yakā, [146], [147], [171];
broken by conversation, [19];
cures snake-bite, [301];
revives corpse, [378], [379]

Spring dried by magic, [91], [92]

Squirrel, small, its cry, [352]

Stars, number of, [150], [153], [154];
search for, [284]

States of Lower Ganges, [39]

Statue displayed as bait, [98]

Step-mother, cruel, [79], [90], [91], [130], [132]

Sticks thrown into river, [108], [319]

Stone, magic, [68], [70]

Storks, [7];
and turtle, [234], [239]

Stupid boy, [108], [319]

Stories brought from India, [38], [176]

Story told in sections, [88], [91]

Strangers give name for child, [303];
names taken by guards, [139]

Subha, K., [153]

Subhadrā, Q., [37]

Suitor’s tasks, [60], [295];
three, [378], [379]

Sumitta, K., [41]

Sun legend, as man, [52];
orbit, [53]

Sunga, son of Vali, [40]

Swarṇamūla mountain, breeding place of Rukhs, [300]

Swing, golden, [129]

Sword contains life of Prince, [164]–167;
marriage to, [58], [65];
of state, [152]

Tales accord with village experience or traditions, [36];
some brought by later immigrants, [37]

Talla, reservoir, [298]

Tāmalitta, Gangetic State and port, [40], [42]

Tamarind Ṭikkā, [100];
carries food under finger-nail, [101];
drowns uncles, [105];
hung under bridge, [104];
sets up corpse in garden, [103];
revives dead buffalo, [102]

Tambi, Muhammedan trader or pedlar, [110], [221]

Tamil King, [313]–315

Tank, village, [4];
turtles, [6], [115], [234] ff., [241] ff.

Tasks given:—One, [189], [274], [276], [277];
two, [60], [63], [125], [301];
three, [66], [105], [122];
four, [295]–298, [301];
bathing in boiling water, [60], [63];
bringing firewood, [122];
milk of bear, crocodile, Demon Hound, Rukh, [296]–298;
carrying water, [122], [125];
cutting gem, [140];
cutting iron tree, [60], [63], [66];
pounding paddy, [122], [125];
solving riddle, [158]

Tax, road, [21]

Terms of relationship are conciliatory and honorific, [21], [68], [69], [80], [83], [85], [174], [276], [277], [298], [364]

Thorn or pin, magic, [68]–71;
effect of, [168], [376];
kills Rākshasa, [163]

Thousand articles, [281], [282];
masuran, [191]–193, [278], [279];
Buddhas, [232], [241]

Thread, charmed, [15];
standing at, [268]

Three questions, [150];
suitors, [378], [379]

Thieves, two:—Clothes and horse borrowed, [331];
purse stolen and replaced, [330];
wife of, [333]

Threshing floor, [20], [120];
rice, mode of, [20]

Tiger and farmer’s wife, [215];
and goat, [215];
and lynx, [215];
and man, [340], [341];
and mouse-deer, [340];
and two brothers, [215]

Timber for house building, [323], [328]

Tokkama, [350];
Tokkā or Tokkan the devil-dancer = hare, [349], [351]

Tom-tom beaters and bull, [254];
and bush, [257];
and dream, [260];
and hares, [255];
and mouse-deer, [256];
caste, [28];
cheated by jackal, [249];
children unrecognised, [253], [254];
crying, [260], [261];
counting themselves, [258];
foolishness of, [252];
four, story of, [262];
journey to Puttalam, [253];
stories of, [109], [252];
throw man into river, [111]

Tom-toms, say words, [29], [238], [303];
verse on, [238]

Tortoise Prince, [71];
shell dress, [71], [311]

Transformation:—Frog into Prince [67], [70];
parrot into Prince, [66];
Prince into birds, [276];
Queen into cobra, [132]

Transmission of tales from India, [38], [176]

Travellers’ shed (ambalama) on road-side, [8], [61]–64, [94], [95], [138], [278], [279], [312]

Treasure of cobra, [64];
seekers killed, [105], [106], [111]

Tree, buttresses, [5];
girl as, [269];
golden, [264];
Nāga Princesses, [268];
silver, [269];
speaking, [117], [123], [124], [126], [340], [341]

Trickery approved, [36]

Trikālinga, [40]

Trumpets, [238]

Tummal Kittī, jungle hen, [349]

Tun-iri Mudiyansē, small squirrel, [351]

Tunnel dug, by pigs, [370], [371];
dug by rats, [61], [62], [177];
thief, [66]

Turtle, tank, [6], [113] ff.;
and jackal, [234];
and lion, [241];
carried by geese, [240];
by hansas, [239], [240];
by black storks, [234], [239], [240];
cheats Brer Rabbit, [244];
Garuḍa, [244];
jackal, [235] ff.;
lion, [242]–244

Turtle dove, [79];
magic, effect of eating, [80], [89];
Prince assisted by, [296]

Tusk-elephant mountain, [291]

Tuttuwa, [73], [74], [304], [306]

Udayagiri, mountain of Dawn, [71]

Unlucky days, [18]

Unnānsē namak, [320]

Untruthfulness, [36]

Upāsakā, [350], [354]

Vaeddā, [202]–204;
complains to King, [188];
K. imprisons travellers, [34], [64], [65];
in folk-tales, [34];
seven shoot for Princess, [96], [98];
shoots magic turtle-dove, [80], [81];
visits city, [273];
wedding custom, [240];
stories, [224]

Vali, K., and his five sons, [40]

Vanaspati rice, [277]

Vanga, Gangetic kingdom, [40]

Vedarāla or Vedā, demon expeller, [147], [171];
medical man, [336], [338];
soothsayer, [179]–185

Vessels, Gangetic, their voyages, [42], [43]

Vibhīsana, K. in Ceylon, [251]

Victim’s escape, enemies take his place, [105], [106], [110], [112]

Village, Kandian, [6];
dress, [8], [103];
garden, [11];
life, [21], [35];
new year’s re-union, [21];
path, [2];
tank, [4];
women, [8]

Vishnu, [227];
boar incarnation, [50];
creation of earth and man, [47]–50

Wager for life, [158]

Wand, magic white, revives dead buffalo, [102]

Warāgan, [182]

Warnings by animals, etc., [14], [15], [19], [97], [122]–124, [126], [297]–299, [300], [356]

Washerman, caste, [28];
and boy, [320], [321];
and jackal, [212];
and Gamarāla, [322], [325];
their cattle, [323], [325], [326];
chena, [322];
house building, [323], [324], [328], [329];
onion garden, [323];
rice field, [323];
lawsuits, [322], [327]

Watch hut in chena, [2], [72], [73], [169], [170]

Water not drunk while eating, [12]

Waterpot, foreign, [306]

Weaver-bird and monkey, [247]

Weavers count themselves, [259];
foolishness of, [252];
hero killed a mosquito, [315];
nine flies, [315]

Whale’s fat brought, [301]

Wife exchanged for bullock, [36], [337];
taken by king, [94], [186]

Wimalī, [302];
reared by Rākshasa, [303]

Wijaya, K., [38]–41, [167];
his exile doubtful, [41];
his voyage to Ceylon, [42];
saves followers from Kuwēnī, [167], [168]

Woodpecker’s cry, [3];
an omen, [19]

Woman, body gilded (?), [290];
dead, becomes white turtle, [115];
mango tree, [116];
kaekiri, [117];
blue lotus, [118];
revived by spell, [378], [379];
made by first man, [49];
made from man’s body, [157], [159];
marries Rākshasa, [290];
old, rejuvenated by beating, [109]–111;
skin dress, [310], [311]

Work, all, begun at lucky hour, [18], [22]

Worship of Gods for a child, [336]

Writing style, [93]

Yabbaelli, f. Demon Hound, [297]

Yama, God of Death, in south, [13]

Yakā, afraid of man, [148], [149];
and Damunu pole, [375];
and monk, [375];
assists Prince, [142], [144];
blinds man, [146];
blocks path, [16], [146];
imprisoned in bottle, [33];
in iron house, [137];
killed by Prince, [143], [265], [274];
kills calf and men, [170], [171];
lives in tree, [148];
magic nail in head, [376];
man-eating, [137], [141]–143, [145], [265];
man re-born as, [170], [172];
mode of approach, [142], [265], [266];
offerings, [147], [170];
power of incantations over, [171];
possesses man, [147];
provides man with food, [148], [149];
seizes King, [141];
seizes man, [146];
shot, [146];
underground palace, [141];
a demon or evil spirit, [34], [137];
works, [375]

Yakō, a form of address, [287]

Yaksanī, female Yakā, built palace, [189];
chased man or Prince, [186], [190];
ate corpse, [189], [190];
made Queen, [186];
served Prince, [189]

Yaksa Vedarāla, practitioner against demons, [147], [171]

Yasalālaka-Tissa, K., deposition, [153]

Youth accompanied by young animals, [297]–300;
cheats monk, [320];
tom-tom beaters, [109]–111;
washerman, [321];
four tasks given, [296]–298

Youth, foolish, and gruel, [320];
and monk, [320];
burns house, [108];
kills fly on mother’s head, [319];
throws sticks into river, [108], [319]

Yugas, four, [49]

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