B. Subjects.
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Somadeva Bhatta, active 11th century and Tawney, C. H. (Charles Henry)
Baldness, cure of—II. 55.
Bamboo, serpent carried inside a—II. 140.
Bandit of the Bráhman caste—II. 202.
Bandits attack and plunder a caravan—I. 262; attack a king—II. 595.
Banshi—II. 253 note.
Barbarian, see Bhilla, Kiráta, Mátanga, Mlechchha, Pulinda, Śavara.
Barber engaged in a palace intrigue—I. 288.
Barlaam and Josaphat, Liebrecht’s essay on the sources of—I. 218 note.
Basilisk, superstition that it can kill with a look—I. 294.
Basilisks placed as guards—II. 464, and note.
Basket, a maiden set afloat in—I. 103; a fierce monkey substituted for the maiden—ibid.
Bathing-place, a holy—II. 196.
Bath of blood—I. 53, 572; II. 628, 636.
Beasts and birds, power of understanding the language of—I. 499.
Beating of a wife transformed into a mare, regularly practised before every meal—II. 136.
Beauty, illuminating power of—I. 121.
Bees, form of assumed by magic—I. 120; charm against—II. 201.
Bewildering and counteracting, science of—I. 439.
Bhilla or Bheel, name of a wild mountain race notorious for its depredations, often synonymous with Śavara and Pulinda—I. 84, 491, 550; II. 20, 53, 54, 154, 155, 381, 382, 390, 595, 597.
Bhúta, a goblin—II. 233, 234.
Binding enemies’ limbs, art of—I. 460.
Bird, gigantic—I. 54, 77, 572; II. 630; carries Śaktideva to the golden city—I. 221.
Bird used for riding through the air—II. 532.
Birds, the king of the—II. 65, and note; gardeners in the form of—II. 533; language of understood by men—II. 368; language of understood by Melampus—II. 638.
Birth, effect of thoughts in a former—I. 242; recollection of previous, of ominous import—I. 239.
Bitch, meat smeared with pepper given to—I. 89, 90; in her former life a woman—I. 89.
Black antelope, the skin of, worn by an ascetic—I. 198.
Blackhead, how cured—I. 573.
Blood, turned into sap—I. 31; bath of, I. 53, 572; II. 628, 636.
Bluebeard chamber—I. 224, 576; II. 268, 451.
Boar, story of the pious boar who gave his flesh to be devoured by a lion—II. 177.
Bodhisattva, one who has one birth before he attains the state of a supreme Buddha—I. 376; II. 101, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 175, 176, 178, 182, 186, 189, 190, 308, 314, 316, 628.
Bodhisattva Avadána, story of Brahmadatta found in—II. 506 note.
Body of a man who had been a Dánava in a previous birth, preserved embalmed—I. 416; he re-enters it—I. 420.
Boon granted by the hermit Durvásas—I. 111.
Boy of the Bráhmanic caste sacrifices himself to save a king—II. 341; parallels to the story—II. 342.
Bráhman, bestowing goods on a, a means of acquiring merit—I. 199; four stages of the life of a—I. 200 note; hospitality to, costs a couple their lives—I. 240; guilt of killing—II. 204.
Bráhman-Rákshasa, or Bráhman demon—I. 282; II. 338, 511, 573.
Brahmany ducks, separation of during the night—I. 117; II. 559.
Braid of hair worn by a woman as a sign of mourning for an absent husband—II. 436.