CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Part I
STORIES TOLD BY THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDD?S .
No. 1
The Making of the Great Earth
No. 2
The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy
No. 3
The Story of Senasur? 1
No. 4
The Glass Princess
No. 5
The Frog Prince
No. 6
The Millet Trader
No. 7
The Turtle Dove
No. 8
The Prince and the Princess
No. 9
Tamarind ?ikk?
No. 10
M?talang? Loku-Appu
No. 11
The White Turtle
No. 12
The Black Storks' Girl
No. 13
The Golden Kaekiri Fruit
No. 14
The Four Deaf Persons
No. 15
The Prince and the Yak?
No. 16
How a Yak? and a Man fought
No. 17
Concerning a Man and Two Yak?s
No. 18
The Three Questions 1
No. 19
The Faithless Princess
No. 20
The Prince who did not go to School
No. 21
Nagul-Munn?
No. 22
The Kul?-bak? Flowers
No. 23
Kurulu-gama Appu, the Sooth-sayer
No. 24
How a Prince was chased by a Yaksan?, and what befel
No. 25
The Wicked King
No. 26
The Kitul Seeds
No. 27
The Speaking Horse
No. 28
The Female Quail
No. 29
The Pied Robin
No. 30
The Jackal and the Hare
No. 31
The Leopard and the Mouse-deer
No. 32
The Crocodile's Wedding
No. 33
The Gamar?la's Cakes
No. 34
The Kinnar? and the Parrots
No. 35
How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit.
No. 36
The Jackal and the Turtle
No. 37
The Lion and the Turtle
Part II
STORIES TOLD OF OR BY THE LOWER CASTES
No. 38
The Monkey and the Weaver-bird
No. 39
The Jackal D?vat?w?
No. 40
A Ka?amb?wa Man's Journey to Puttalam
No. 41
The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Hares
No. 42
The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Mouse-deer
No. 43
The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Bush
No. 44
How the Ka?amb?wa Men counted Themselves
No. 45
The Ka?amb?wa Men and the Dream
No. 46
The Four Tom-tom Beaters
No. 47
The Golden Tree
No. 48
The Seven Princesses
No. 49
Mr. Janel Sinn?
No. 50
The Nikini Story 1
No. 51
The Aet-kanda L?niy? 1
No. 52
The Wimal? Story
No. 53
The Pots of Oil
No. 54
The Mouse Maiden 1
No. 55
S?giris Sinn?, the Giant
No. 56
The Proud Jackal
STORIES OF THE DURAY?S
No. 57
The Seven Robbers
No. 58
The Stupid Boy
No. 59
The Gamar?la and the Washerman
No. 60
The Two Thieves
No. 61
The Marg?sa Tree
No. 62
The Gamar?la's Foolish Son
No. 63
The Jackal's Judgment
No. 64
The Heron and the Crab
No. 65
The Jackal and the Br?hma?a
No. 66
The Cat who guarded the Precepts
No. 67
The Lizard and the Leopard
No. 68
The Lion and the Jackal
STORIES OF THE RO?IY?S
No. 69
The Roll of Cotton
No. 70
The Jackal and the Leopard
No. 71
How the Boars killed the R?kshasa
No. 72
The Grateful Jackal
STORIES OF THE KINNAR?S
No. 73
Concerning a Monk and a Yak?
No. 74
The Three Suitors
No. 75
The Crocodile and the Jackal
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