B. Subjects.
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Somadeva Bhatta, active 11th century and Tawney, C. H. (Charles Henry)
Abscess caused to burst by false tidings of a calamity—I. 102.
Áditya, name of a class of deities—I. 449; contains Aryaman and Púshan—I. 456 note.
Adoption of the yet unborn son of a woman by a dying thief—II. 329.
Aindra, grammar, superseded by that of Páṇini—I. 17.
Air, stories of transportation through—I. 575; power of travelling in, bestowed at will—II. 23.
Aitareya Bráhmaṇa, held by Dr. Rajendralál Mitra to refer to an actual human sacrifice—I. 445 note.
All’s Well that ends Well, its original source—II. 618.
Alms, a wife demands her husband’s life as—II. 63, 603.
Aloes-wood turned into charcoal—II. 44.
Ambassador, the person of, inviolable—I. 442; II. 395.
Anger, renunciation of, illustrated by a tale—I. 293.
Animal transformation—I. 37, 341, 342; II. 135, 136, 157, 168.
Animals, charmed with the tale of Guṇáḍhya—I. 48; those unlucky to meet—I. 578.
Antichrist, birth of announced—II. 629.
Ape that brings up money—II. 8; kills the bird that admonishes him—II. 39.
Apsaras, name of certain female divinities who reside in the sky and are the wives of the Gandharvas—I. 52, 115, 238, 239, 250, 267, 286, 287, 292, 304, 310, 407, 430, 481, 528; II. 576, 577.
Apsaras obliged to leave her mortal husband as soon as she has borne a child—I. 250.
Argo, the freeing of—II. 629.
Arghya—II. 548.
Arm, of a Rákshasa, cut off by a hero (as in the Russian story of the Witch Girl)—I. 138.
Armies, forms in which they are drawn up—I. 418, 452, 472; II. 467.
Arrows drawn to the ear—I. 475.
Ascetic falsely accused of eating children—I. 203; description of—II. 367; disguise of assumed—II. 239; female, when struck with a ball by a prince, sends him in search of a wife—II. 113; European parallels—ibid note; grove, description of—II. 484.
Asceticism, part of the merit obtained by, given away—I. 251; practised to propitiate a divinity—II. 171, 516, 545; to obtain magic power—II. 445; to obtain magical weapons—II. 515; to obtain a husband—I. 155; II. 538; to secure victory for a husband—II. 524.
Ashes, life restored by sprinkling them on a dead body—II. 612.
Ass in the panther’s skin—II. 65, and note.
Assassins, employed against a hostile army—I. 149.
Assessors—II. 497.
Astrologers, secret arrangement made with by a king’s minister, in order to keep him from an imprudent marriage—I. 280.
Astrology, knowledge of, possessed by a Bráhman—I. 272.
Asura, generic name of certain demons in perpetual hostility with the gods—I. 2, 69, 70, 71, 116, 155, 157, 257, 260, 268, 276, 283, 299, 309, 337, 406, 407, 414, 415, 416, 417, 425, 428, 429, 430, 431, 435, 445, 447, 453, 456, 474, 475, 477, 478, 481, 558, 559; II. 255, 270, 271, 381, 486, 487, 514, 515, 516, 517, 522, 524, 526, 527, 530, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 547, 549, 551, 552.
Aśvamedha sacrifice—I. 411, 415.
Austerities, wonderful power of—II. 538.
Automata, of wood—I. 390.
Avadána, the Bodhisattva, story of Brahmadatta found in—II. 506 note; the Mahávastu, story of the monkey and the porpoise found in—II. 84 note; contains story of a girl cured of leprosy—II. 632.
Avadánas, Indian fables found in—II. 44 note, 45 note, 46 note, 47 note, 55 note, 60 note, 61 note, 62 note, 67 note, 69 note, 75 note, 76 note, 77 note, 87 note, 88 note.
Back, the ungrateful wife carries a maimed man on her—II. 102.
Backward repetition of a charm—II. 221.
Bagpipe, story of the fox and the—II. 30 note.
Bálakhilyas, divine personages of the size of a thumb—I. 79, 572.