PART I
Source-cited. This telling is linked to a published collection.
In these stories there are many incidents which appear in stories collected in other parts of India, though it is rather surprising that so few of them appear elsewhere in their entirety. We have however, instances of the husk myth, the youngest son who surpasses his brother, the life of the ogre placed in some external object, the jealous stepmother, the selection of a king by an elephant, the queen whose husband is invariably killed on his wedding night, etc. etc.
Few of the old Indian stories found in the Kathâ Sarit Sâgara or the Buddhist Birth stories appear in recognizable form in the present collection.
This came out of a book, not out of a memory. A collector wrote it down and printed it in 1909 — in English, from a telling in ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ. It is here so the archive has something to read, and because a printed version is a useful thing to argue with.
If you know this story, yours is the more valuable record. Say you have heard it too, or add your own telling — in the language you heard it in, with the ending you were told.