126 THE INDIAN ORIGIN OF MALAY FOLK-TALES. 



Variants occur in Wortham's " The Enchanted Par- 

 rot" (Sulea-Saptati) Tales XLII and XLIII, in Dubois 

 (op. cit.), in Small's Tota Kahani (p. 98), in Sinhalese 

 (Parker, vol. I, p. 214), in a Kashmiri tale (Steel and 

 Temple's ' Wide- A wake Stories'), in Chinese, in Tibetan 

 (O'Connor's " Folk-Tales from Tibet" p. 76), in Baudes- 

 son's "The Mois " and there are Hottentot versions. See 

 also Clouston op. cit., vol. I, pp. 146-150. 



Several of the variants include the incident of two 

 frightened animals having their tails tied and of one of 

 the tails breaking, as they start back in terror. The 

 Malay version of this variation is given bv Laidlaw (J. B. 

 A. S. t S. B. No. 48, pp. 87-89).) 



(10) In Klinkert's Hikayat Pelandoek Djinaka is the tale of 

 how mouse-deer challenges the beasts to drink up a river. 

 In Kaka-Jataka 146 (Francis and Thomas p. 126) crows 

 try to drink up the sea : Jacobs' " Indian Fairy Tales " 

 71 has a fable of dogs trying to drink a river dry. 



(11) Klinkert's Hikaycut also gives the tale of an Ogre haunt- 

 ing the River Tenom: — cf. the story of Badang worsting 

 the ogre that stole his fish (Sejarah Melayu, eh. 6). 

 Stories of water-ogres guarding lakes and molesting all 

 comers till worsted by hero prince or wily monkey occur 

 in Jatakas 6, 20 and 58; in the Mahabharata (Dutt's tr., 

 Calcutta, III, chs. 311-313) and in Benfey's Pantsclia- 

 tantra. The device of pretending that bonds are a cure 

 for lumbago and so getting one's enemy to suffer himself 

 to be bound occurs in a Sinhalese folk-tale. 



What folk-tales came to the Malays early along with 

 Sanskrit and Buddhism and Shivaism from India? and 

 what later fiom India after the coming of Islam? Much 

 comparative study will be required definitely to solve these 

 questions. 



SRfe 



Jour. Straits Branch 



