One day, a guru foresaw in a flash of vision what he would be in his next life. So he called his favorite disciple and asked him what he would do for ...
A great raja's daughter was beautiful and talented, and she loved to hunt in the woods on horseback. One day, as she was galloping after a fine bu...
A man had two wives and had a daughter by each of them. Dukhu was the daughter of the elder wife and Sukhu was the daughter of the younger. The man lo...
People tell a story about a king who had seven wives but no children. When he married the first woman, he thought she would bear him a son. When she d...
A number of young girls were drawing water at the village well and telling each other their fantasies of when and whom and how they would marry. One o...
As a fisherwoman passed by the palace hawking her fish, the queen appeared at one of the windows and beckoned her to come near and show her what she h...
The strange adventures related in the story of the Beetle and the Silken Thread took place in the town of Allahabad, "the City of God," so c...
In the branches of a great tree, in a forest in India, lived a wise old crow in a very comfortable, well-built nest. His wife was dead, and all his ch...
In one of the smaller cities of India called Sravasti the people gathered together on a very hot day to stare at and talk about a stranger, who had co...
Far, far away in a town of India called Chinchini, where in days long gone by the ancient gods in whom the people believed are said sometimes to have ...