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On the Prakrit Sources of Tale-types and Tale-motifs
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hunters scolded the boy and when the latter explained his behaviour, they advised him : When you see persons hiding in this manner, you should approach them quite slowly and noiselessly. Proceeding further the boy saw a group of policemen who were on the trail of a thief and were waiting in a hide-out. The boy began to move very cautiously. They took him for the thief and bound him with a rope. When he explained they advised him to. say in like situation, ‘May the blight descend'. Further on his way the boy saw a group of farmers starting ploughing operations and he blurted out ‘May the blight descend here'. They belaboured him, and when he explained his behaviour, they advised him that in such situations he should say ‘May all your carts be filled up. As the boy moved further, he saw a dead body being carried and he cried, 'May all your carts be filled with dead bodies'. He received a good beating and also the instruction that in a situation like that he should say "May such an event never take place'. Shortly the boy got an occasion to say these words at a marriage ceremony in progress. Being instructed there to say in a similar situation, 'May this be a permanent feature', he pronounced these words when he saw a chieftain in fetters. There again he was taught to say ‘May you be soon freed from these'. At last with many similar misadventures, the boy came to the king and was appointed his personal attendant. Here too he went on bungling. He was instructed by the king that while he was in assembly, whatever the boy had to convey to him was to be done at a proper moment and only in an undertone. The boy followed these instructions quite precisely when he came to the king to convey the news that the house was on fire. And finally, instructed to throw ashes, dust and water whenever he saw smoke issuing from something, he carried this out when once the king's body was being fumigated.
4. Cinderella (Type 510)
As already pointed out by Hiralal Jain the stories of Sugandhadaśami and Ārāmasobhā known from several Jain works in
