INDEX.

*** THE Roman numerals refer to the Introduction.—The Syriac, Greek, Hebrew, and Old Castilian versions are so frequently cited in the notes to the Persian and Arabic texts, that only remarks upon them in the Intro­duction and Appendix are referred to here.

Abbot, Story of the, 283
Abbott, General James, 226
Ablactation in the East, 129
Abraha, The host of, 17
Absalom, Death of, 285; Re-
volt of, 284
Adi's Wife, Story of, 313
Afrāsiyāb, 118
Ahmed, Story of, 137, 291
Alakeswara Kathā, xxxv
Alwand, Mountain, 29
Alchemist, 90
Alphonsus de Clericali Disci-
plina, 220, 229, 244, 333
Amazon, Story of the, 192, 322
Amis and Amiloun, Romance
of, 350
Anecdotes chrétiennes, 293
'Antar, Romance of, 47, 324
Antelope, Hunting the, 79
Antimony, 83
Anvār-i Suhaylī, 223, 233, 242
Arab women, Bravery of, 326
Arabian Nights—see Thousand
and One Nights
Ardashīr, 50
Arouya and her Suitors, Story
of, 313
Aslam and Sindibād, xlviii
Asoka, his Son, and his Wife,
Story of, xxix
Ass (Hunting the Wild Ass), 52
Avadānas, xlix, 219, 280
Azraqī's Sindibād Poem, xl, xliv

Bagh o Bahār, 350
Bahār-i Dānish, 260, 266
Bakhtyār Nāma, xxxii, 350
Balqīs, Queen of Sheba, 35
Balzac's Contes Drolatiques,
310
Bandello's Novels, 332
Bang Eater, Story of the, 262
Bathman, Story of the, 61, 162
Beauty (Female), 53
Bellerophon Letters, 298
Benfey, Professor, xxix, 251
Birds: Story of the Slave, etc.,
310
Blackguard, Story of the, 233
Blind Old Man, Story of the,
96
Boar and Herdsman, Story of
the, 242, 330
Boccaccio—see Decameron.
Bossus, Les Trois (Fabliau), 290
Bottle Imp, Legend of the, 18
Buchanan, Exploits of George,
267
Burgess and Magpie, 338

Calila and Dimna, 31, 57, 241
Camel, Wolf, and Fox, Story
of the, 15, 217
Campbell's Tales of the West
Highlands, 263, 332, 371
Capua, John of, 35, 49
Cardonne—see Mélanges
Castilian text (Libro de los
Engannos), xxxix, 283
Caxton's Dictes, 31
Cento Novelle Antiche, 292, 330
Chastity, Tests of, 318
Cheetah, 79
Cheval de Fust, Romance of,
277
Child of Five Years, Story of
the, 94, 266
Chinese Stories (Giles'), 19
Chosroes, 50
Cinthio, 221, 293
Cléomadès, Romance of, 277
Collyrium, 83
Comparetti, Professor, xxxviii,
xlvi, xlvii, xlix, 87, 110, 133,
233, 254, 283, 284, 377
Constant du Hamel (Fabliau),
317
Coote, H. C., xxxviii-ix, 283
Counsellors, The Seven Evil,
338
Cowell, Professor, 217
Creditor, Story of Hard, 364
Curiosity, Story of, 170, 308

Dāmannaka, Story of, 297
Damsel's Fate, 110, 112, 278
Daqā'iqī (Author of a Sindibād
text), xlvi
Darī Text of the Sindibād, xlii
Dāsa Kumara Charita, 303
Daughter, Story of the Spoiled,
352
Davis' work on Chinese, 340
Decameron, 227, 230, 257, 320,
337
Delhama, Romance of, 326
Demon, Tales of a, 249, 264,
271, 306
Dervishes, The Four, 9, 118
Destiny, Story of, 280
Deutsch, Emanuel, xxiv, xxvi
Devasmitá and her Suitors,
Story of, 244, 318
Diable Boiteux (Le Sage), 19
Diana, Romance of, 301
Dictes of Caxton, 31
Dīnar, 163
Dirham, 155
Disciplina Clericalis—see Al-
phonsus
Discorso degli Animali, 35
Disguised Young Man, Story of
the, 286, 347, 348
Dīvs, 107
Dog and Go-Between, Story of
the, 61, 162, 244
Dog and Snake, Story of the,
237, 329, 359
Dolopathos, xlviii, 240, 353;
Abstract of, 357
Double Infidelity, Story of the,
35, 148, 228
Dreams, Story of the Two, 343
Dunlop's History of Fiction,
230, 292, 302, 340, 346
Durrāj, 44

Egyptian Romance, Ancient,
xxiii
Elephant and the King, Story
of the, 17
Elephant, Story of the Bread,
235
Elephant, Masters of the, 17
Elephant, Proverb regarding
the, 19
Ellis' English Metrical Ro-
mances, 35, 327
Enchanted Fountains, 300
Enchanted Horse, 277
English Editions of the Seven
Wise Masters, 354-356
Erasto, 240, 354

Face, Blackened, 111
Facétieuses Journées, 240
Fairies, Story of the Queen of
the, 309
Fairy Tales, Dr. Fryer's Eng-
lish, 297
Father-in-Law, Story of the,
65, 248
Farīdūn, 69
Fausta, Story of, xxvii
Ferashes, 195
Fihrist, The, xxxvi
Fishes, etc., Women's tricks
with, 258, 262, 263
Forbidden Doors, Story of the,
170, 308
Forty Vazīrs, Tales of the,
xxix, xxxii, 34, 142, 260,
293, 298, 330
Fountains, Enchanted, 300
Fox and the Monkey, Story of
the, 13
Fox and the People, Story of
the, 278
Frere's (Miss) Old Deccan
Days, 376
Friend, Story of the Best, 360
Fuller and his Son, Story of
the, 37, 144, 233

Garūda, 277
Gesta Romanorum, 221, 239,
289, 296, 300, 363, 368
Ghūl, Story of the Prince and
the, 50, 150, 235
Ghūls, Nature of, 55, 236
Gibb, E. J. W., 261, 270, 298
Giovanni's Novels, 332, 367
Gladwin's Persian Moonshee,
368
Glass Case, Story of the Lady
in the, 255
Goat: Two Tribes etc., 299
Gödeke, Karl, xxxiv, xlix, l, 286
Golden Age of Poets, 42
Goldsmith, Story of the, 166,
303
Gomberville, 303
Görres on the Seven Sages, xvii
Greek Text (Syntipas), xxxvii,
xlvii, 278-282
Greyhound and Snake, Stories
of the, 237, 329, 359
Gueulette's Contes Tartares, 346

Hāfīz, 6, 19, 40
Hawking, 79
Hatim Taï, Romance of, 256
Heart, the sultan of the body,
20
Hebrew Text (Mishlé Sanda-
bar), xxxix, 284-8
Hecatommithi, 221, 293
Heptameron, 251
Hippocrates' Nephew, Story
of, 330
Hitopadésa, 57, 61, 196, 228,
241, 309, 335
Honey, Story of the, 154, 298
Hunchbacks, Stories of the,
287, 290
Hundred Merry Tales, 342
Husband, Story of the Liber-
tine, xlvi, 58, 241
Husband Shut Out, Story of
the, 332, 376
Hūrīs, 25

Indian Antiquary, 253, 294, 313
Indian Fairy Tales (Miss
Stokes'), 263, 313
Infant in Cradle, Story of the,
93
Infidelity, Story of the Double,
35, 148, 228
Iram, Garden of, 28
Isfandiyār, 107

Jack of Dover's Inquiry, 267
Jacob's Sorrow, 201
Ja'farābād, 40
Jaida and Khālid, Story of, 324
Jalālu-'d-Dīn Rūmī, 270, 271
Jamshīd, The Goblet of, 6
Jeshuæ Nazareni, Historia, 221
Johannes de Alta Silva, 353
Johnson, Dr., on the Poets'
Golden Age, 42

Kalila and Dimna, 31, 57, 241
Ka'ba (at Mecca), 58
Kāma Sutra, 141, 287
Kāmarupa, Romance of, 152,
346
Kārūn, 75
Kathá Sarit Ságara, 242, 244,
255, 271, 295, 303, 308, 314,
318, 332
Kathákosa, Story from the, 297
Kauthar, 40
Kay-Kāūs, 118
Kay-Khusrau, 118
Kay-Qubād, 100
Khatā, 97
Kh, ārazm, 97
Khizar, 41
Khutan, 97
King and his Seneschal, Story
of the, 334
King's Son and the Merchant's
Wife, Story of the, 335
Kisra, or Khusra, 50
Knave of Clubs (Rowlands'),
230
Knight and Greyhound, Stories
of the, 237, 329, 359
Knight of Hungary, Story of, 343
Kohl, 83

Lady and her Suitors, Story of
the, 181, 311
Lady and the Three Knights,
288, 353
Lady in the Glass Case, 255
Lady of Antwerp, 322
Lady Prioress and her Wooers,
Lydgate's Story of the, 320
Latin Dolopathos, 354, 357
Laylī and Majnūn, 108
Le Grand, 337, 346
Liberators, Story of the Four,
106, 271
Libertine Husband, Story of
the, xlvi, 58, 241
Libro de los Engannos (Old
Castilian Text) xxxix, 283
Lion's Track, Story of the, 80,
144, 256
Litters in the East, 151
Liver, the seat of Love, 47
Lloyd's State Worthies, 267
Llywelyn and his Dog, Story
of, 239
Loaves, Story of the, 232
Lover in the Chest, Story of
the, 178, 310

Mabinogion, 217, 263
Magpie, Story of the, 191
Magpie and Burgess, Story of
the, 338
Mahābharata, 372
Majnūn and Laylī, 108
Masnad, 172
Massuccio's Novels, 346
Mastaba, 200
Mastermaid and her Suitors, 322
Masters, Analysis of the Seven
Wise, 327
Master-Thief, Story of the, 370
Ma'sūdī, xxxvi
Maydan, 194
Mélanges de Littérature Orien-
tale, (Cardonne's), 250, 257,
261
Merchant's Wife and her Suitors,
Story of the, 181, 311
Merlin's Pillar, Story of, 337
Messiah, Breath of the, 40
Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, 346
Minister and the Fool, Story of
the, 294
Minister's Son, Story of the,
249, 306
Mirrors, Metallic, 17
Mishlé Sandabar (Heb. Text),
xxxix, 284-8
Monk and Miller's Wife, Story
of the, 320
Monkey and the Boar, Story of
the, 59, 242
Monkeys, Story of the King of
the, 27, 222
Morier's Journey to Persia, 323
Morley's Letter to Lane, xli
Mother, Story of the Careless,
91
Musalla, 40
Musk, 98

Nails, Biting the, 23
Nakhshabī—see Tūtī Nāma.
Navarre, Queen of, 251
Nitambavatī, Story of, 303
Nobleman and Soldier's Wife,
Story of the, 319
Nöldeke, Professor, xlvi, xlviii
Norse Tales (Dasent's), 296,
310, 376
Noy, Attorney-General, 267

Oesterley, Professor, 357,
Oldest Animals, Legend of, 217
Orlando Furioso, 301
Orlando Innamorato, 301, 323,
324, 345

Pancha Tantra, xxi, 57, 96, 97,
190, 222, 240, 251
Panjāb, Legends of the, 226,
227
Panther employed in hunting,
79
Paris, Paulin, xxvii
Parrot and Merchant, Story of
the, 31, 141, 222
Parrots, Wonderfully gifted,
227
Partridges, Story of the Two,
39, 233
Perī and Devotee, Story of, 71,
253
Perīs, The nature of, 25
Persia, Malcolm's Sketches of,
79, 252
Persian Prose Text, xli
Persian Tales, Frame of, 347
Perspiration, the odour of musk,
74
Petronius Arbiter, 340
Pigeons, Story of the Two, 233
Poisoned Guests, Story of the,
88, 213, 263
Portraits, Falling in love with,
303
Prince and the Ghūl, Story of
the, 50, 150, 235
Prince, Story of the Trans-
formed, 80, 156, 299
Prince: his Education, 10-23,
129, 327, 357; his Tempta-
tion, 25, 133, 329, 358
Prioress and her Wooers, Lyd-
gate's Story of the, 320
Purse, Story of the Stolen, 94,
266

Qāzī, 93
Qibla, 58
Qur'ān, 17, 25

Rákshasas, 107
Ralston's Russian Folk Tales,
236, 375; Tibetan Tales, 350
Ráma, Story of Prince, xxxi
Rámáyana, 219
Rasalū, Legend of, 226
Ravens, Story of the, 348
Redhouse, J. W., 6, 72, 271
Rice Dealer, Story of the, 46,
155
Robber and the Lion, Story of
the, 69, 251
Robe, Story of the Concealed,
73, 198, 253
Rolland's Sevin Seages, xxxix,
348, 356
Rome, Story of the Siege of,
343
Rosaries (Muslim), 202
Rowlands' Knave of Clubs, 230
Rubies, Eastern notion regard-
ing, 106
Rudakī, Quotation from, 85
Ruknābād, 40

Sā', a measure, 102
Sacchetti, 103
Sachs, Hans, 333
Sa'dī, 31, 90, 113, 271
Sajjāda, 191
Salām, 200
Samarqandī, Author of Persian
Prose Text, xlii-xliv
Sansovino, 240, 350
Sārangdhara, Story of, xxx
Schiller, 293
Second Series of Tales, xlvii
Serendil, 18
Serpents guarding treasure, 53
Seven Sciences, 327
Seven Vazīrs (Arabic Text),
xliii, xliv
Seven Wise Masters, Analysis
of the, 327
Seven Wise Mistresses, 356
Sex, Story of the Changed, 80,
156, 299
Shirāz, 40
Siddhī Kūr, Relations of, 276
Signs, Conversation by, 66, 248
Sindbād, Etymology of, lii
Sindibād Nāma, Frame of,
xviii; source of, xl, xliv;
lacunæ etc. in MS. of, l
Sinhāsana Dwātrinsatī, 302
Snake and Cat, Story of the,
56, 236
Snake and Dog, Story of the,
237, 329, 359
Snake and Ichneumon, Story
of the, 240
Solomon's Carpet, 275
Somadeva, lvi, 54, 242 (see also
Kathá Sarit Ságara)
Somaprabhā and her Three
Suitors, Story of, 272
Stepmother, Story of the Bad,
352
Suka Saptatī, xlv, xlviii, 225,
235, 241, 244, 248, 252, 284,
377
Subaqueous halls, 309
Swan Children, Story of the, 372
Syntipas—see Greek Text
Syriac Text (Sindban), xxxviii,
104, 283

Tales and Quick Answers, 231,
266, 342
Talmud, 103, 105, 154, 340
Tamil Tales, 319
Tank of Trial, 250, 377
Tarlton's News out of Purga-
tory, 230
Tartar Tales (Relations of Siddhī
Kūr), 276
Thieves breaking thro' walls,
350
Thoms' Old English Prose
Romances, 337, 377
Thousand and One Nights, xli,
xliii, xliv, 222, 223, 248, 253,
255, 256, 262, 263, 276, 277,
308, 311, 376
Throne, Tales of a, 302
Tibetan Tales (Ralston's), 350
Touchstone, Tale of the, 313
Travel, Advantages of, 268
Travellers and the Loaf, Story
of the, 220
Treasury, Story of the King's,
330, 359
Tree and Branch, Story of, 329
Tūtī Nāma, xlv-xlviii, 49, 112,
120, 224, 235, 241, 248, 260,
275, 287, 302, 319
Tyl Eulenspiegel, 103

Upakosā and her Lovers, Story
of, 314

Vazīrs, Tales of the Forty,
xxix, xxxii, 34, 142, 260,
293, 298, 330
Vazīrs, The Seven (Arabian
Text), xliii, xliv
Vega, Lope de, 350
Veil, Story of the Burnt, 73,
198, 253
Vetāla (see Demon, Tales of a)
Virgilius' Metal Serpent, 377
Vāsavadattā, Romance of, 346
Voltaire's Zadig, 340, 341
Von Hammer, 345
Vrihat Kathá, 242

Wālī, 181
Washerman and his Son, Story
of the, 37, 144, 233
Water of Life, 41
Weber, Albrecht, 303
Weber's Northern Romances,
327
Western Texts of the Seven
Sages, 351
Widow Comforted, Story of the,
338
Widow, Story of the Pretended,
63, 247
Widow's Son, Story of the, 368
Wild Ass, Hunting the, 52
Wilson, Dr. H. H., xxxi, xxxv,
liii, 217, 246, 303, 314, 319
Wine parties in the East, 184
Wise Old Man and his Foolish
Wife, Story of the, 335
Wishes, Story of the Three, 71,
190, 253
Woman and her Father-in-Law,
Story of the, 65, 248
Woman and the Abbot, Story of
the, 283
Woman and the Rice-Dealer,
Story of the, 46, 155
Woman whose love is scorned,
xxvii-xxxi
Woman's Wiles, Story of, 83,
258
Women's Craft, liii-vi
Wright, Thomas, 327, 338,
345, 353
Wright's Chaste Wife, Story of
the, 317

Ya'qūbī, xxxvi