Jewel (a merchant), his wife Pleasing, and daughter Pearl lived in Ayodhya
Pearl was very beautiful; many people wanted to marry her (even kings), but she did not want to get married whatsoever
Ayodhya’s people are worried about a bunch of thieving; King Hero-Banner goes out at night with a sword to catch them
Meets a thief, and goes to a hidden house with him
Maid tells king it’s dangerous in the house, so king runs away; king gets soldiers to surround the house
Thief fights the soldiers, destroys the king’s army with his sword
King fights the thief himself, and captures him
Thief goes to be executed next morning; Pearl begs Jewel to save the thief because she loves him
Jewel asks for King for the thief’s release in exchange for everything he has
King refuses, Pearl bathes and goes to the thief’s death scene to die w/ him
Pearl and her family watch the thief get impaled and die
Pearl removes thief’s body from stake and wanted to burn herself
Shiva (god) rewards Pearl for being faithful to the thief
Pearl asks for Jewel to have 100 sons
Shiva tells Pearl to wish for more
Pearl wishes for thief to live and be a good man
Thief is revived; Jewel/Pearl/Thief family go home to celebrate
Thief/Pearl marry, happily ever after
Goblin asks King if the Thief cried or laughed when he saw the merchant/his daughter approach?
King says Thief wept with grief, and laughed in astonishment
King named Earth-boar rules Flower-city
Vishnuswami, a brahman, lives with wife Swaha and four sons
Vishnuswami dies, sons take some money and go see Grandfather in Sacrifice village
Grandfather is dead; they live with their uncles, uncles make fun of sons’ clothing/food
Eldest saw a corpse, saw that the corpse seemed happy, tried to hang himself
Someone frees the eldest from hanging and comforts him, Eldest tells this story to his siblings
Eldest says he will now burn himself at a Holy Place so he won’t feel the woes of poverty
Younger brothers tell him that money doesn’t buy happiness; Eldest needs to find something that makes him happy
Brothers agree to wander Earth; each will learn a different science
#1 learns to properly put flesh on any animal skeleton
#2 learns to put hair and skin on a fleshed skeleton
#3 learns to put eyes and other organs into the skeleton
#4 learns to give the creature the breath of life
They decide to test their skills with a lion skeleton
They make a lion, lion kills them and runs into the forest (SHOCKER)
Goblin asks King who is most at fault for creating the lion
King says #4; he gave the breath of life, even after seeing that the supposed creature would be dangerous
Father and Son, Daughter and Mother
A king named Virtue lived in southern country
Moonlight, his wife, came from Malwa
Daughter named Beauty
Relatives planned to overthrow King when Beauty was grown up
Family flees kingdom, heading for FIL’s house in Malwa; spend night in Vindhya forest
Family comes for fortified village, full of robbers/murderers
King sees robbers coming for them, tells Moonlight/Beauty to run into the forest
King fought robbers, eventually dies; Robbers take jewels from him
Moonlight/Beauty run long way; rest by ashoka tree/lotus-pond
Father/Son (Fierce-lion/Strong-lion) are hunters; see the ladies’ footprints and follow them
Father tells Son he should marry one of the two
Son tells Father: “Son will marry the one with smaller feet. Father should marry the one with bigger feet” (Son’s Mom passed away)
Father/Son find Mother/Daughter at pond; girls almost run away in fear
Son marries Mother bc she has smaller feet; Father marries Daughter
Goblin asks King what relation Mother/Son’s children and Father/Daughter’s children would be
King cannot answer and walks away
Goblin is pleased by his character of walking away; Goblin tells King that Patience (a monk) he will soon encounter will try to kill the King
Goblin tells King to trick the monk into bowing, so King can cut off his head and claim magic power/fairies
Story Source: Twenty-Two Goblins, translated by Arthur W. Ryder
Lion chasing after the four brothers, via the Untextbook
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