民話をさがす ／ スリランカ
The Aet-kanda Leniya [103]
スリランカ(Sri Lanka) ／ 本文の言語 英語 ／ 原話の言語 si ／ 出典の刊年 1910 ／ 1,798 語
出典と権利
| 出典の本 | Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 |
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| 提供 | Project Gutenberg ／ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56614 |
| 採集・編者 | Henry Parker |
| 翻訳 | Henry Parker |
| 刊年の根拠 | 扉に『LONDON LUZAC & CO … 1910』 |
| 権利状態 | Public Domain (United States)(US)／確認日 2026-09-14 |
| 地図上の位置 | 緯度 7.9 / 経度 80.7(精度 culture_region)。話の舞台でも採集地でもなく、この本が扱う文化圏のおおよその中心である。 |
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左＝原文(原資料)右＝和訳(AI が作ったもの)
At a certain city there are the King and the Queen, it is said. They had one son, and while the Prince was living there the Queen bore yet [another] Prince.
ある都に王と后がいたという。二人には息子が一人あり、その王子がそこで暮らしているうちに、后はもう一人〔別の〕王子を産んだ。
One day the two Princes having gone to the river to bathe, a Princess from another city came to bathe [at the same place], and the eldest Prince hid the robes of the Princess. Afterwards, on his inviting the Princess she went with the Prince to his city.
ある日、二人の王子が川へ水浴びに行くと、別の都から姫が〔同じ場所へ〕水浴びに来て、兄の王子は姫の衣を隠した。そのあと誘うと、姫は王子とともにその都へ行った。
After they had gone there, when the King got to know of it he said, "Should this rascal stay with me the kingdom will be destroyed," and he ordered them to behead the Prince. Then the Queen, the Prince's mother, having cooked a bundle of rice and given it to him, said, "Go away where you like [or the King will behead you]."
そこへ行ってから、王がそれを知ると、「この不埒者がわしのもとにいては国が滅びる」と言って、王子の首を刎ねよと命じた。すると王子の母である后は、飯をひと包み炊いて渡し、こう言った。「どこへでも好きなところへお行きなさい〔でなければ王に首を刎ねられます〕」
The Prince having taken the packet of cooked rice to the river, ate it with the Princess. After eating it the two persons went to the house of a widow woman. The Prince made the Princess stay with her, and having given the Princess's robes into the hands of the widow woman, said, "Mother, put those robes into that box and this box" (that is, here and there, not all in one place, so that the Princess should not be able to find them).
王子は炊いた飯の包みを川へ持っていって、姫とともに食べた。食べてから二人は寡婦の家へ行った。王子は姫をそこに留め、姫の衣を寡婦の手に渡して言った。「母さま、その衣をあの箱とこの箱に入れておいてください」(つまりあちこちに分けて、一か所にまとめず、姫が見つけられないようにということである)。
Afterwards, when the Prince had gone to the forge to get a sword made, the Princess said to the widow woman, "Mother, give me my robes to look at."
そのあと、王子が剣をこしらえてもらいに鍛冶場へ行くと、姫は寡婦に言った。「母さま、わたしの衣を見たいので出してください」
The widow woman said, "Ane! Daughter, I don't know where they are."
寡婦は言った。「アネ! 娘や、どこにあるか知りません」
The Princess said, "Why are you telling me lies? Give them to me."
姫は言った。「なぜ嘘を言うのです。出してください」
On account of that, the widow woman opened the boxes, and gave the robes to the Princess. The Princess took the robes, and saying, "Should he see me again it will be as [wonderful as] if he should see the young of the Aet-Kanda Leniya, or white where charcoal has been rubbed," went away to the city of the Princess.
それで寡婦は箱を開けて、衣を姫に渡した。姫は衣を取って、「あの人がまたわたしを見ることがあるとすれば、それはアエトカンダ・レニヤ(大鵬)の雛を見るか、炭をこすった跡が白くなるのと同じくらい〔ありえない〕ことです」と言って、姫の都へ去っていった。
When the Prince came after getting the sword made, he asked at the hand of the widow woman, "Where is the Princess?"
王子が剣をこしらえてもらって帰ってくると、寡婦に尋ねた。「姫はどこですか」
The woman said, "On her asking for her robes I gave them. Taking them, she said, 'Should he see me again it will be as [wonderful as] if he should see the young of the Aet-Kanda Leniya, or white where charcoal has been rubbed' [and then she went away]."
女は言った。「衣がほしいと言うので渡しました。それを取って、『あの人がまたわたしを見ることがあるとすれば、それはアエトカンダ・レニヤの雛を見るか、炭をこすった跡が白くなるのと同じくらい〔ありえない〕ことです』と言っ〔て去っ〕ていきました」
The Prince on that account rubbed and rubbed charcoal, and when he looked there was a little white [colour]. Having seen it, he told the widow woman to cook cakes. When they were cooked he took some and ate; and tying up a cloth package of them, and taking it, and the sword, he went off.
王子はそれで炭をこすりにこすり、見てみると少し白い〔色〕になった。それを見て、寡婦に餅をこしらえてくれと言った。できると少し取って食べ、布の包みに詰めて、それと剣を持って出かけた。
As he was passing through the middle of a forest, he saw a cobra beginning to climb a tree in which were the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Leniya, and he cut it in two with the sword. While he was climbing the tree after killing it, the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Leniya came to eat him. Then he said to the little ones, "O unrighteous ones! Why are ye coming to eat me? Look ye on the ground."
森の真ん中を通っていると、アエトカンダ・レニヤの雛のいる木に眼鏡蛇が登りはじめているのを見て、剣で二つに斬った。殺してから木に登っていると、アエトカンダ・レニヤの雛たちが食べに来た。そこで雛たちに言った。「おお道理を知らぬ者よ! なぜわたしを食べに来る。地面をごらん」
When the Aet-Kanda little ones had looked on the ground, and seen the cobra that he had cut in two, they said, "[As you have saved us from the cobra] we will render you any possible assistance."
アエトカンダの雛たちが地面を見て、王子が二つに斬った眼鏡蛇を見ると、こう言った。「〔蛇からわたしたちを救ってくれたのですから〕できるかぎりのお力添えをしましょう」
Then the Prince after going to the nest where they were, unfastened the package of cakes, and having given to them also, ate. After eating, the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Leniya said, "Mother will indeed eat you to-day when she has come."
そこで王子は雛たちのいる巣へ行って、餅の包みを解き、雛たちにも分けて食べた。食べてから、アエトカンダ・レニヤの雛たちは言った。「母が帰ってきたら、まことにあなたを食べてしまうでしょう」
The Prince said, "Ane! Somehow or other you must save me."
王子は言った。「アネ! どうにかしてわたしを助けてくれ」
They said "Ha," and made him creep among their wings.
雛たちは「よし」と言って、自分たちの翼のあいだに潜り込ませた。
While he was there the Aet-Kanda Leni (the female Rukh, their mother), having pierced with its claws a tusk elephant, came bringing it, after flying round the sea in three circles. After she had come she said, "What is this, children! Here is prey for you; are you delaying to eat? On other days you come screaming for it."
そこにいると、アエトカンダ・レニ(その母である雌の大鵬)が、牙のある象を爪で貫いて、海のまわりを三度めぐってから運んできた。着くと言った。「どうしたのだ、子どもたち! ここに餌があるのに、食べるのを遅らせているのか。ほかの日なら叫びながら来るのに」
Those young ones said, "Mother, to-day we are not hungry. Food has been given to us."
雛たちは言った。「母さん、今日はお腹が空いていません。食べ物をもらったのです」
"Whence?" she asked.
「どこから」と尋ねた。
The little ones said, "There is a man with us; [he gave it to us]."
雛たちは言った。「わたしたちのところに人がいて、〔その人がくれたのです〕」
"Show me him," the Aet-Kanda Leni said.
「見せておくれ」とアエトカンダ・レニは言った。
"You will eat him, mother," they replied.
「母さん、食べてしまうでしょう」と雛たちは答えた。
The Aet-Kanda Leni said, "I will not eat him."
アエトカンダ・レニは言った。「食べはしない」
"If so, take us and swear," [104] the little ones said.
「それならわたしたちにかけて誓って [104]」と雛たちは言った。
Then the Aet-Kanda Leni swore, "I will not eat him."
そこでアエトカンダ・レニは誓った。「食べはしない」
After that, the little ones showed the Aet-Kanda Leni the Prince. The Prince said to the Aet-Kanda Leni, "Look at the foot of the tree; [I have saved your little ones by killing the cobra]."
そのあと雛たちはアエトカンダ・レニに王子を見せた。王子はアエトカンダ・レニに言った。「木の根もとをごらんなさい。〔わたしは眼鏡蛇を殺してあなたの雛を救ったのです〕」
After having looked, the Aet-Kanda Leni said, "I will give you any possible assistance because you have done this."
見てから、アエトカンダ・レニは言った。「これをしてくれたのだから、できるかぎりの力添えをしましょう」
Afterwards, the Prince having descended from the tree was unable to cross the river. So the Aet-Kanda Leni broke a stick, and bringing it in her mouth told the Prince to hang from it. While the Prince was hanging, the Aet-Kanda Leni flew to the other side of the river; after [leaving him there] she returned to the nest where the little ones were.
そのあと王子は木から下りたが、川を渡れなかった。そこでアエトカンダ・レニは棒を折って、口にくわえて持ってきて、それにぶら下がれと王子に言った。王子がぶら下がると、アエトカンダ・レニは川の向こう岸へ飛び、〔そこへ下ろしてから〕雛たちのいる巣へ帰った。
The Prince went on. As he was going along, some men were taking a great many elephants. "What are you taking those elephants for?" he asked.
王子は進んだ。歩いていくと、何人かの男が象をたくさん引いていた。「その象をどこへ連れていくのです」と尋ねた。
Those men said, "We are taking them to kill at the city."
その男たちは言った。「都へ殺しに連れていくのだ」
The Prince said, "I will give you these hundred masuran; let them go."
王子は言った。「この百マスランを差し上げます。放してやってください」
Those men, saying "Ha," took the hundred masuran, and let the elephants go.
男たちは「よし」と言って百マスランを取り、象を放してやった。
After that, when he had gone much further still, he saw men taking a great many pigs. The Prince asked, "Where are you taking these pigs?"
そのあと、さらにずっと行くと、豚をたくさん引いていく男たちを見た。王子は尋ねた。「この豚をどこへ連れていくのです」
"We are taking them to kill at the city," the men replied.
「都へ殺しに連れていくのだ」と男たちは答えた。
The Prince said, "I will give you these hundred masuran; let them go."
王子は言った。「この百マスランを差し上げます。放してやってください」
The men said "Ha," and taking the hundred masuran let them go.
男たちは「よし」と言って、百マスランを取り、放してやった。
When the Prince had gone still a little further, men were taking a great quantity of turtle-doves. "Where are you taking those turtle-doves?" he asked.
王子がさらに少し行くと、男たちが山鳩をたくさん運んでいた。「その山鳩をどこへ連れていくのです」と尋ねた。
"We are taking them to the city to kill," the men replied.
「都へ殺しに連れていくのだ」と男たちは答えた。
The Prince said, "I will give you these hundred masuran; let the turtle-doves go."
王子は言った。「この百マスランを差し上げます。山鳩を放してやってください」
The men said "Ha," and taking the hundred masuran let them go.
男たちは「よし」と言って、百マスランを取り、放してやった。
When he had gone a little further still, men were taking a great many fire-flies. "Where are you taking them?" the Prince asked.
さらに少し行くと、男たちが蛍をたくさん運んでいた。「それをどこへ連れていくのです」と王子は尋ねた。
Those men replied, "We are taking them to the city to fry."
その男たちは答えた。「都へ揚げに持っていくのだ」
The Prince said, "I will give you these hundred masuran; let them go."
王子は言った。「この百マスランを差し上げます。放してやってください」
The men said "Ha," and taking the hundred masuran let them go.
男たちは「よし」と言って、百マスランを取り、放してやった。
When he had gone a little further yet, seven widow women came to the well for water [which they said they wanted in order] to pour water on the head of that Princess, who had become marriageable. A widow woman said to that Prince, "Take hold of this water-pot [and help me to lift it up]." Then the Prince having taken the jewelled ring that was on his hand, put it in the water-pot [unobserved]; after that he took hold of the water-pot [and helped her to lift it].
さらに少し行くと、七人の寡婦が井戸へ水を汲みに来ていた。年ごろになったあの姫の頭に水を注ぐために〔ほしいという〕のである。一人の寡婦がその王子に言った。「この水壺を持ってください〔持ち上げるのを手伝ってください〕」。すると王子は手にはめていた宝玉の指環を取って、〔気づかれずに〕その水壺に入れ、それから水壺を持〔って持ち上げるのを手伝っ〕た。
When they had taken the water, and were pouring it on the head of the Princess, the jewelled ring fell down. Having seen it [and recognised it], the Princess ordered the woman to tell the Prince to come. So the Prince went there.
その水を持っていって姫の頭に注ぐと、宝玉の指環が落ちてきた。それを見て〔見分けて〕、姫は女に、王子を来させよと命じた。そこで王子はそこへ行った。
After he had gone there [and told her that he had made a white mark with charcoal, and had saved the lives of the little ones of the Aet-Kanda Leniya], that Princess said to the Prince, "[Before I will marry you, you must perform the tasks that I shall give you. First you must] cut a chena suitable for sowing one and a half amunas [105] of mun" (a small pulse).
そこへ行って〔炭で白い印をつけたこと、アエトカンダ・レニヤの雛の命を救ったことを話すと〕、その姫は王子に言った。「〔娶っていただく前に、わたしの出す仕事をなしとげてくださらねばなりません。まず〕ムン(小さな豆)を一アムナ半 [105] 蒔けるだけの焼畑を切り拓いてください」
The Prince said "Ha," and having gone and cut a branch or two at the chena, thought, "Ane! Will the elephants that I set free by giving a hundred masuran render an assistance?" Those elephants that he freed, having come at this word, broke down all that jungle and went away.
王子は「よし」と言って、行って焼畑で枝を一本二本切ってから思った。「アネ! 百マスラン出して放してやったあの象たちは、力を貸してくれるだろうか」。すると放してやったあの象たちが、その言葉を聞いて来て、藪をすっかり打ち倒して去っていった。
After that, the Prince went to the Princess, and said, "The chena has been cut."
そのあと王子は姫のもとへ行って言った。「焼畑を切り拓きました」
"Then set fire [to it]," the Princess said. So the Prince went and set fire [to the bushes]. The chena burnt excellently; nothing remained, so well it burnt.
「では火をつけてください」と姫は言った。そこで王子は行って〔茂みに〕火をつけた。焼畑は見事に燃え、何も残らないほどよく燃えた。
Having gone to the Princess he said, "I set fire to the chena." Then the Princess gave him one and a half amunas of mun, and said, "Sow this and come back."
姫のもとへ行って言った。「焼畑に火をつけました」。すると姫はムンを一アムナ半渡して言った。「これを蒔いて帰ってきてください」
When the Prince had gone he took the mun and sowed it at the chena. Afterwards the Prince said, "Ane! Will the pigs that I set free by giving a hundred masuran render an assistance?" Then the pigs that he had freed by giving the hundred masuran all came and dug [with their snouts] the whole of the chena.
王子は行って、そのムンを取って焼畑に蒔いた。そのあと王子は言った。「アネ! 百マスラン出して放してやったあの豚たちは、力を貸してくれるだろうか」。すると百マスラン出して放してやった豚たちがみな来て、焼畑じゅうを〔鼻づらで〕掘り返した。
The Prince went to the Princess, and said, "I have sowed the chena." After that, the Princess told him to collect and bring back the mun that he had sown in the chena.
王子は姫のもとへ行って言った。「焼畑に蒔きました」。そのあと姫は、焼畑に蒔いたムンを集めて持ってこいと言った。
So the Prince having gone to the chena, and collected a little mun, said, "Ane! Will the turtle-doves that I freed by giving a hundred masuran render an assistance?" Then the turtle-doves that he had set free having all come, picked up the whole.
そこで王子は焼畑へ行って、ムンを少し集めてから言った。「アネ! 百マスラン出して放してやった山鳩たちは、力を貸してくれるだろうか」。すると放してやった山鳩たちがみな来て、すっかりついばみ集めた。
The Prince, collecting it and taking it to the city said to the Princess, "After collecting the mun that I sowed in the chena I have come back."
王子はそれを集めて都へ持っていき、姫に言った。「焼畑に蒔いたムンを集めて帰ってきました」
"Then measure it," she said. When he was measuring it there was one mun seed less. As she said this a turtle-dove dropped it at the measuring place.
「では量ってください」と姫は言った。量ってみると、ムンの粒が一つ足りなかった。姫がそう言うと、山鳩が一羽、量っている場所にそれを落とした。
After that, the father of the Princess put that Princess and seven widow women in a dark room. Having put them [there] the King said, "Unless you select and take out the Princess, or if you take out any other person, I shall behead you."
そのあと姫の父は、その姫と七人の寡婦を暗い部屋に入れた。入れてから王は言った。「姫を選び出せなければ、あるいはほかの者を連れ出せば、そなたの首を刎ねる」
When the Prince had gone into the room [he thought], "Will the fire-flies that I freed by giving a hundred masuran render an assistance?" Then all the fire-flies having come, fastened on the body of the Princess, as a lamp. After that, the Prince took the Princess out into the light.
王子は部屋に入ってから〔思った〕。「百マスラン出して放してやった蛍たちは、力を貸してくれるだろうか」。すると蛍がみな来て、灯のように姫の体にとまった。そのあと王子は姫を明るいところへ連れ出した。
[As he had performed all the tasks, the Prince was married to the Princess]. Afterwards the Prince, calling the Princess, went to the house of that widow woman.
〔仕事をすべてなしとげたので、王子は姫を娶った。〕そのあと王子は姫を呼んで、あの寡婦の家へ行った。
和訳は claude-opus-5 がこのために作ったもので、原資料ではない(translation_type: AI_GENERATED)。 既存の published 訳を写したものではなく、学術的な定訳でもない。 段落は原文と一対一に対応させてあり、段落数の一致は機械で検査している。和訳は Embedding に入れていない —— 入れると測ったことの数字が汚れるためである。
本に付いていた註
Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province. In a variant of the first part of this story, a youth whose father was dead, and whose mother, finding him in the way, wanted to get rid of him in order to marry another man, was sent by his mother to bring some milk, to be used medicinally for curing a pretended illness of hers. He was sent first to the Aet-Kanda Lihiniya (Leniya is an alternative spelling), and had the same experiences at its nest, before he got the milk. The young birds told their mother that he was their elder brother, the son of their Puñci-Amma. [106] When he stated that he had come to ask for the milk, the Lihini (the female Rukh) said, "Ando! Son, when did any one get milk from me, and cure a sick person with it? She has done that to kill you, not through want of it. However, since you have come I will give you a little milk." One of the young birds accompanied him to his home. After his mother had drunk the milk she pretended to be still ill, and sent him for the milk of the Demon Hound, [107] which lived in a cave in a forest. I translate this part:-- The woman cooked and gave him a packet of rice. This youth, taking the packet of cooked rice and his sword, and making the little one of the Aet-Kanda Lihini stay at the house, went to the cave where the Demon Hound was. When he arrived, the Demon Hound was not there; only the little ones of the Demon Hound were there. As the youth was going [to the cave] the little ones came growling to eat him. When this youth unfastened the packet of cooked rice, and showed them it, they stopped. Afterwards, the youth, having divided the packet of cooked rice, gave [part] to the Demon Hound's little ones, and taking some himself, they ate. After they had eaten, the young dogs said, "When mother has come she will indeed eat you." Then this youth said, "Ane! To-day you must somehow or other save me. Do not let her eat me." The young dogs said "Ha," and putting the youth in the hollow of the cave, the young dogs came to this side, [towards the entrance], and remained there lying down. While they were there the Demon Hound came. After she had come she said, sniffing twice, "Where does this smell of fresh human flesh come from?" The little ones of the Demon Hound replied, "You eat fresh human flesh, and you bring fresh human flesh; what is this that you are saying?" The Demon Hound said, "No, children, a fresh human smell is coming to me. Tell me [how it is]. Tell me." The little ones said, "You will eat him." The Demon Hound said, "No, children, I will not eat him. Tell me." The little ones said, "Take us and swear." After that, the Demon Hound took her little ones and swore, "I will not eat him." Then the little ones showed her that youth, saying, "Here he is, mother; our little mother's son has come, our elder brother." The Demon Hound asked at the hand of this youth, "What, son, have you come for?" This youth replied, "Mother, our mother is ill. On account of it she said, 'Should you go and bring a little milk, when I have drunk it I shall become well.' Because of that I have come to ask for a little milk." The Demon Hound said, "Ando! Son, when did a sick person get milk from me and become well! To [get] you killed is the explanation of that. However, since you have come, take a little milk and go." So saying she gave him a little milk. Afterwards, as this youth was preparing to set off with it, a young dog said, "I also want to go with our elder brother," and howling [on account of it was allowed by his mother] to come away with the youth. Having arrived and given the milk to the woman, after she had drunk it he asked, "Now then, mother, is your illness cured?" The woman said, "Ando! Son, it is not cured." The youth asked, "If so, what shall I do?" The woman replied, "Bring a little milk from the Bear that is in the cave in the forest, and give me it." He went for it, leaving the young Demon Hound at the house, and his adventures and the conversations were a mere repetition of those at the cave of the Demon Hound. One of the young Bears returned to the house with him. Lastly, he was sent to bring the milk of the Crocodile that was in the Sea, "the reservoir [108] for the sky, and the reservoir for the earth." He ate his rice on a mound in the sea, after which, as he was descending into the sea, he observed a blue-lotus flower, and found the Crocodile at it. It came to eat him, but he held out his sword in front of him, so it asked him why he had come, and after hearing his explanation, in the very same words as before, gave him a little milk. It warned him, like the other animals, that the sending him for it was only a device to get him killed. He took the milk home, and after drinking it his mother informed him that she was cured. The story is then concluded as follows:-- Having said this, the woman went to the man [whom she wanted to marry], and said, "Now then, there is no means of killing that one. From the places to which he went he has escaped and come back. What, then, shall we do to that one?" That man said, "Cook to-day after it has become night. I will break something in the lower part of the garden. Then say, 'Son. There! Did you hear something break in the lower part of the garden? Maybe cattle have come in.' He will come to see, and when he has come, I will chop him with the bill-hook, and kill him." Afterwards, this woman having returned to the house, as she was cooking when it became night, the man came and broke a stick in the lower part of the garden. The woman said, "Ando! Son, maybe cattle have come in. Go quickly [and drive them out]." Then, as this youth, having gone into the house and taken his sword, was going out, that little one of the Aet-Kanda Lihini, and the little one of the Demon Hound, and the little one of the Bear went with him. The three of them having gone [in front] to the lower part of the garden, bit the man who waited there, and having killed him returned. When this youth went and looked, the man had been killed. Then the youth came back, and having killed his mother stayed quietly there. So that little one of the Aet-Kanda Lihini, and the little one of the Demon Hound, and the young Bear, and the youth remained at the house together. Tom-tom Beater. North-western Province. There are Indian versions of several of the incidents of these stories. In Old Deccan Days (Frere), p. 15, a Prince killed a cobra that was about to ascend a tree in order to destroy two eaglets. They assisted him afterwards. In the Katha Sarit Sagara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 221, the Garudas or Rukhs are described as being "of the nature of vultures." A Brahmana got hid among the back feathers of one while it was asleep, and was carried by it to the Golden City next day. These birds are referred to (vol. i, p. 78) as breeding on a mountain called Swarnamula, in Ceylon. Compare also the account of Bharunda birds in The Kathakosa (Tawney), p. 164. According to Prof. Sayce, the original idea of the Rukh is to be found in Zu, the storm-bird or god of the Sumerians (The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, p. 353). A lion-headed eagle with outspread wings, holding a lion by each of its feet, formed the symbol of Lagash or Shirpurla, one of the earliest Sumerian cities. It was the emblem of Ningirsu, the god of the city (A History of Sumer and Akkad, by L. W. King, 1910, pp. 98, 100). According to Mr. King's revised chronology, this takes back the notion of this gigantic eagle, which carried off and devoured the largest quadrupeds, to the fourth millenium B.C. Its Sumerian name was Imgig. In Folk-Tales of Bengal (Day), p. 134, a Prince's wife, disguised as a Sannyasi, or Hindu religious mendicant, on her way to join her husband who was ill--poisoned by lying on powdered glass that was spread over his bed--rested under a tree in which a pair of Rukhs (in this story called Bihangama and Bihangami) had their nest, containing two young birds. She cut in two a snake that was about to climb the tree, and that was accustomed to kill the young ones each year. She overheard the conversation of the birds, which was to the effect that some of their droppings would cure the Prince, if reduced to powder and applied with a brush to the Prince's body, after bathing him seven times, with seven jars of water and seven jars of milk. One of the birds carried her on his back to the Prince, with the rapidity of lightning. At p. 219, we learn that the dung of the young of this bird, when applied fresh to the eyeballs, would cure blindness. At pp. 189 and 192, a puppy and a young hawk joined a Prince on his journey, but apparently owing to the omission of some incident of the tale they were of no service to him. Such omissions are common; they can only be supplied by collecting variants. In Wide-Awake Stories (Steel and Temple), pp. 74, 75--Tales of the Punjab, pp. 66, 67--a crow, peacock, and jackal in turn warned a girl against a robber with whom she was going. At p. 273--Tales of the Punjab, p. 259--Prince Rasalu was given the task of separating a hundred-weight of millet seed from a hundred-weight of sand with which it had been mixed. This was done for him by crickets in return for his saving a cricket from a fire. In the Jataka story No. 444 (vol. iv, pp. 19, 20), a man laid his hand on the head of a boy who had been bitten by a snake, and then repeated a spell to restore him to health. The boy's father laid his hand on the boy's breast while saying a second spell. In the Tamil Story of Madana Kama Raja, or "Dravidian Nights" (Natesa Sastri), p. 21 ff., a Prince purchased for a hundred pagodas apiece, a kitten and a snake, which he reared for twelve years. They assisted him afterwards. At p. 91 ff., a Prince was ordered by a King to bring snake's poison, and afterwards whale's fat. At p. 109 ff., a Prince who had four heavenly wives lost them through his mother's returning to one of them her celestial garment, which had been concealed. When in search of a way to his wives, he saved an Ant-King, a Frog-King, and a Cricket-King. He went to Indra, who gave him four tasks, of which one was that after an acre of land had been sown with sesame seed and ploughed one hundred times, he was to collect all the seeds. The Ant-King brought his subjects and collected them for him. Another of the tasks, the last one, was the selection of Indra's daughter, who was one of his wives, from the four, who were all given the same appearance. The Cricket-King enabled him to do this, by hopping onto her foot.
緊張のうつりかわり
本文を 12 等分し、張りつめた語(死・血・恐れ・剣…)から和らいだ語(祝い・眠り・ 婚礼…)を引いて、話の中で 0〜1 に均したもの。自前の辞書である。翻訳を経た本文を測っているので、これは原話ではなくこの訳の性質である。
出来事の並び(数え上げ)
区画ごとに、コーパス全体の出現率に対して不釣り合いに多く出た引き金語を採っている。 生の回数で採ると、`father`/`mother` を持つ Family がほぼ全区画で勝つ(実測)。
Battle→Departure→Battle→Family→Return→Trial→Departure→Marriage
似ている民話
多言語 Embedding のコサイン近傍。類似度は歴史的な起源や伝播を証明する値ではない。同じ本の話は文体を共有するぶん必ず似るので、そう分かるよう印を付けてある。
| # | 題名 | 文化圏 | 類似度 | 出典 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Turtle Dove | スリランカ | 0.969 | 同じ本 |
| 2 | The Glass Princess | スリランカ | 0.968 | 同じ本 |
| 3 | The Seven Princesses | スリランカ | 0.966 | 同じ本 |
| 4 | The Prince who Did Not Go to School | スリランカ | 0.966 | 同じ本 |
| 5 | The Prince and the Princess | スリランカ | 0.965 | 同じ本 |
| 6 | Mr. Janel Siñña | スリランカ | 0.965 | 同じ本 |
| 7 | Strike but Hear | ベンガル | 0.962 | 別の本 |
| 8 | The Golden Tree | スリランカ | 0.961 | 同じ本 |
| 9 | The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead | ベンガル | 0.961 | 別の本 |
| 10 | The Enchanted Bird, Music, and Stream | ヒマラヤ山麓 | 0.957 | 別の本 |
| 11 | The Wicked King | スリランカ | 0.957 | 同じ本 |
| 12 | The Golden Kaekiri Fruit | スリランカ | 0.956 | 同じ本 |
話を刻んで比べた近傍
話を 150 語ずつの窓に切り、話の平均を引いてから窓ごとに比べたときの近傍。 話をまるごと 1 本のベクトルにする上の一覧より、独英グリムの同じ話をよく当てた (測ったこと の H-05)。「筋の順番が似ている」ではない —— 順番をまったく使わない突き合わせでも同じだけ当たったので、 効いているのは刻んで細かく比べていることである。
| # | 題名 | 文化圏 | 類似度 | 出典 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Snake and the Frog | ヒマラヤ山麓 | 0.116 | 別の本 |
| 2 | The Omanhene who Liked Riddles | 西アフリカ(ゴールドコースト) | 0.103 | 別の本 |
| 3 | The Mouse Maiden [110] | スリランカ | 0.101 | 同じ本 |
| 4 | The Jackal's Judgment | スリランカ | 0.099 | 同じ本 |
| 5 | The Prince who Did Not Go to School | スリランカ | 0.099 | 同じ本 |
| 6 | Egóri the Brave and the Gipsy | ロシア | 0.098 | 別の本 |