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INDIAN WORKS.
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22b. English versions of 22a, by J. T. Platts, Hollings, and Barker.

22c. Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry. Adopted from 22b by Richard F. Burton, London, 1870.

22d. German version of 22a, by H. Oesterley, in the 'Bibliothek Orientalischer Märchen und Erzählungen,' 1873, with valuable introduction and notes.

23. Ssiddi Kür. Mongolian version of No. 18.

24. German versions of No. 23, by Benjamin Bergmann in Nomadische Streifereien im Lande der Kalmücken, i. 247 and foll., 1804; and by Juelg, 1866 and 1868.

25. German version of No. 18, by Dr. Luber, Görz, 1875.

26. Ṣuka Saptati. The seventy stories of a parrot.

27. Greek version of No. 26, by Demetrios Galanos and G. K. Typaldos, Psittakou Mythologiai Nukterinai, included in their version of Nos. 10 and 18.

28. Persian version of No. 26, now lost; but reproduced by Nachshebi under the title Tuti Nāmeh.

28a. Tota Kahani. Hindustāni version of 26. Edited by Forbes.

28b. English version of 28a, by the Rev. G. Small.

29. Siṅhāsana Dvātriṅṣati. The thirty-two stories of the throne of Vikramāditya; called also Vikrama Caritra. Edited in Madras, 1861.

29a. Singhasan Battisi. Hindī version of 29. Edited by Syed Abdoolah.

30. Vatriṣ Singhāsan. Bengalī version of No. 29, Serampur, 1818.

31. Arji Borji Chan. Mongolian version of No. 29.

32. Vṛihat-kathā. By Guṇādhya, probably about the sixth century; in the Paiṣacī Prākrit. See above, p. lxxiii.

33. Kathā Sarit Sāgara. The Ocean of the Rivers of Tales. It is founded on No. 32. Includes No. 18, and a part of No. 5. The Sanskrit text edited by Brockhaus, Leipzig, vol. i. with German translation, 1839; vol. ii. text only, 1862 and 1866. Original by Ṣrī Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, of Kashmir, at the beginning of the twelfth century A.D. See above, pp. lxxii, lxxiii.

34. Vṛihat-katha. A Sanskrit version of No. 34, by Kshemendra, of Kashmīr. Written independently of Somadeva's work. No. 32. See above, p. lxxiii.

35. Pañca Daṇḍa Chattra Prabandha. Stories about King Vikramāditya's magic umbrella. Jain Sanskrit. Text and German version by Weber, Berlin, 1877.

36. Vāsavadatta. By Subandhu. Possibly as old as the sixth century. Edited by Fitz-Edward Hall, in the Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1859. This and the next are romances, not story-books.

37. Kādambarī. By Bāṇa Bhatta, ? seventh century. Edited in Calcutta, 1850; and again, 1872, by Tarkavacaspati.