Other editions of book Folk-Tales of Bengal

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

There was a king who had two queens, Duo and Suo. [1] Both of themwere childless. One day a Faquir (mendicant) came to the palace-gateto ask for alms. The Suo queen went to the door with a handful ofrice. The mendicant asked whether she had any children. On beinganswered in the negative, the holy mendicant refused to take alms, asthe hands of a woman unblessed with child are regarded as ceremoniallyunclean. He offered her a drug for removing her barrenness, and sheexpressing her willingness to receive it, he gave it to her with thefollowing directions:--"Take this nostrum, swallow it with the juiceof the pomegranate flower; if you do this, you will have a son in duetime. The son will be exceedingly handsome, and his complexion willbe of the colour of the pomegranate flower; and you shall call himDalim Kumar. [2] As enemies will try to take away the life of yourson, I may as well tell you that the life of the boy will be bound upin the life of a big boal fish which is in your tank, in front of thepalace. In the heart of the fish is a small box of wood, in the box isa necklace of gold, that necklace is the life of your son. Farewell."In the course of a month or so it was whispered in the palacethat the Suo queen had hopes of an heir. Great was the joy ofthe king. Visions of an heir to the throne, and of a never-endingsuccession of powerful monarchs perpetuating his dynasty to thelatest generations, floated before his mind, and made him glad as hehad never been in his life. The usual ceremonies performed on suchoccasions were celebrated with great pomp; and the subjects made louddemonstrations of their joy at the anticipation of so auspicious anevent as the birth of a prince. In the fulness of time the Suo queengave birth to a son of uncommon beauty. When the king the first timesaw the face of the infant, his heart leaped with joy. The ceremonyof the child's first rice was celebrated with extraordinary pomp,and the whole kingdom was filled with gladness.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.