Volume Ii Part 9 (1/2)

Even the wife of the king of the monkeys is named Tara, or, properly, the star. Thus there seems to exist between the monkey and the star the same relation as between the bear and the star, a new argument to vindicate the ident.i.ty of the two animals in mythology.

[155] Priya tash?ani me kapir vyakta vy adudushat ciro nv asya ravisha? na suga? dushk?ite bhuva? vicvasmad indra uttara?; str. 5.

[156] i. 2628.

[157] iii. 75.

[158] iv. 5.

[159] v. 2, vii. 39.

[160] v. 3.

[161] _Ramay._ v. 4, v. 5.

[162] v. 55.

[163] _Ramay._ iv. 12, v. 6.--The monkey on the sea is also to be found in a Greek apologue, but the subject is somewhat different. A monkey, which during a tempest had been washed from a s.h.i.+p, and tossed about upon the stormy waves under the promontory of Attica, is mistaken by a dolphin for a man; the dolphin, having great affection for the race to which he presumed he belonged, takes him up and carries him towards the sh.o.r.e. But before letting him touch firm ground, he asks him whether he is an Athenian; the monkey answers that he is of ill.u.s.trious birth; the dolphin asks if he knows the Piraeus; the monkey, thinking that it is a man's name, answers that he is a great friend of his; upon which the dolphin, indignant at having been deceived, lets the monkey fall again into the sea.

[164] _Ramay._ v. 56.

[165] v. 8.

[166] v. 37.

[167] _Ramay._ v. 56.

[168] v. 50.--In the _Pancatantram_, v. 10, it is said, on the contrary, that monkeys possess the virtue of healing the wounds of horses that have been scalded or burned, as the sun of morning chases the darkness away. According to a variety of this story contained in the _Tuti-Name_, i. 130, the bite of a monkey can be cured only by the blood of the very monkey who had inflicted it.

[169] A?natakulacile 'pi priti? kurvanti vanara? atmarthe ca na rodanti; Bohtlingk, _Indische Spruche_, 107.

[170] v. 36.

[171] i. 266.

[172] ?iksho na vo maruta? cimiva? amo dadhro gauriva bhimayu? _?igv._ v. 56, 3.

[173] Ami ya ?iksha nihitasa ucca; _?igv._ i. 24, 10.

[174] _Ramay._ i. 60-62.

[175] vi. 46.

[176] vi. 6.

[177] v. 59.

[178] v. 25.