The ten royal virtues are: Almsgiving, keeping religious precepts, liberality, uprightness, compassion, addiction to religious austerities, even temper, tenderness, patience, and peacefulness (Clough).
Regarding the flying wooden Peacock, see also the [next story] and No. 198 in vol. iii. In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. ii, p. 378, there is also an account of a similar flying-machine called a Peacock, on which a young man, accompanied by the maker, first went to marry a girl, and afterwards, against the advice of its maker, flew aloft to show the people his own skill. He did not know how to make it return, and at last the cords broke, it fell in the sea, and he was drowned.
In Folklore of the Santal Parganas (collected by Rev. Dr. Bodding), pp. 378, 380, etc., there are several accounts of houses under the water; these were the residences of Bongas or deities.
In The Indian Antiquary, vol. i, p. 115, Mr. G. H. Damant gave a Bengal story in which a King’s son descends into a well, and finds there a Princess in a house, imprisoned by Rākshasas.
In Folk-Tales of Bengal (L. Behari Day), p. 17 ff., a Prince and a Minister’s son who was his bosom friend, while on their travels obtained a Cobra’s jewel, and by means of it saw a palace under the water of a tank. They dived down to it, found a Princess who had been imprisoned there by the Cobra, which had died on losing its magic jewel, and the Prince married her by exchanging garlands of flowers. After the Minister’s son left them in order to prepare for their return, the Princess, while the Prince was asleep, by means of the magic jewel ascended to the surface of the water, and sat on the bathing steps. On the third occasion when she did this, a Rāja’s son saw and fell in love with her. As soon as she observed him she descended to her palace, and the young man went home apparently mad. The Rāja offered his daughter’s hand and half his kingdom to anyone who could cure his son. An old woman who had seen the Princess offered to do it, and a hut was built for her on the embankment of the tank. When the Princess came to the bank the woman offered to help her to bathe, secured the jewel, and the Princess was captured. When the Minister’s son returned on a day previously arranged, he heard that the Princess was to be married in two days. He personated the widow’s son, who was absent, and was well received by the widow, who handed him the magic jewel. He saw the Princess, managed to escape with her, and they joined the Prince.
In The Kathākoça (Tawney), p. 91, a serpent Prince saved a Queen who had been pushed into a well by her stepmother, and made a palace in the well, in which she lived until she was able to rejoin her husband.
In Folk-Tales of Hindustan (Shaik Chilli), p. 52, a Princess who had been carried off and was about to be married to a Rāja’s son, stated (by pre-arrangement with her husband’s party, who had come to rescue her) that it was “the custom of her family to float round the city in a golden aerial car with the bridegroom and match-maker.” The Rāja sent men to find a car. Two of her husband’s friends, a goldsmith and a carpenter, now produced such a car. When the Rāja, his son, the Princess, and the witch who had abducted her, began to sail above the city in it, at the Princess’s request the car was stopped at a pre-arranged place, the Prince and his four friends sprang into it, took it high in the air, drowned the Rāja, his son, and the witch, and returned with the Princess to their own city.
In the Arabian Nights (Lady Burton’s ed., vol. iii, p. 137 ff.) there is an account of a flying ebony horse, which rose or descended when suitable pegs were turned. When it was brought to a Persian King, his son tried it, was carried away like the Prince in the next story, and at last descended on the roof of a palace, where he saw and fell in love with the royal Princess, and returning afterwards, carried her off.
In the Totā Kahānī (Small), p. 139, a young man made a flying wooden horse, by means of which a merchant’s daughter, who had been abducted by a fairy, was recovered.
In the Kathā Sarit Sāgara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 57, a young Brāhmaṇa who plunged into the Ganges to rescue a woman who appeared to be drowning found a temple of Śiva, and a palace in which the girl who was a Daitya (an Asura) lived.