Indian Tales and Legends (Oxford Myths & Legends)

A collection of folk tales, including simple stories about cats, mice and tortoises, about a tiger of very great cunning, and a jackal who dyed himself blue. There are strange legends of ten-headed demons, of rogues and villains, of splendid kings ruling from jewelled thrones, the air around them heavy with the scent of flowers. And at the heart of the book is the great Indian epic The Ramayana the marriage of Rama and Sita, the loss of Sita, and of how the monkey god Hanuman went in search of her.

• King Great Virtue
• Prince Wicked
• Suppāraka the mariner
• The prince's revenge
• The king's remorse
• King Shibi
• A nasty rumour
• An Indian love story
• Mousey the merchant
• Riches or happiness?
• A slip of the tongue
• The mouse and his friends
• The mongoose, the owl, the cat, and the mouse
• The earthquake
• The hawk's friends
• Nala and Damayantī
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-- The Rāmāyana --
• The marriage of Rāma and Sītā
• The banishment of Rāma
• The loss of Sītā
• The monkeys' search for Sītā
• The exploits of Hanuman
• Rāma's conquest of Ravana

The price of greed --The Brahman and the goat --The indigo jackal --The robber Simhavikrama --A noble Brahman's sacrifice --Kitava the gambler --The fate of the vulture --Curd ears --The hare in the moon --A tale of two rogues --The fickleness of fortune --Nāgasvāmin and the witches --Love at first sight --The foolish Brahman --The Vetāla's stories.Somaprabhā and the three suitors ;Anangarati and the men of four castes ;Chandasimha, his son, and their two wives.