--- title: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So he made over the kingdom to his ministers, and mounted his chariot; and taking only his charioteer, left the city in disguise. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 # Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 113 sentences and 2528 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/1/) — So he made over the kingdom to his ministers, and mounted his chariot; and taking only his charioteer, left the city in disguise. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/2/) — And searching the country through, up to the very boundary, he found no fault-finder, and heard only of his own virtue; and so he turned back from the outer-most boundary, and returned by the high road towards the city. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/3/) — Now at that time the king of Kosala, Mallika by name, was also ruling his kingdom with righteousness; and when seeking for some fault in himself, he also found no fault-finder in the palace but only heard of his own virtue! - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/4/) — So seeking in country places, he too came to that very spot. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/5/) — And these two came face to face in a low cart-track with precipitous sides, where there was no space for a chariot to get out of the way! - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/6/) — Then the charioteer of Mallika the king said to the charioteer of the king of Benares, "Take thy chariot out of the way!" - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/7/) — But he said, "Take thy chariot out of the way, O charioteer! - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/8/) — In this chariot sitteth the lord over the kingdom of Benares, the great king Brahma-datta." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/9/) — Yet the other replied, "In this chariot, O charioteer, sitteth the lord over the kingdom of Kosala, the great king Mallika. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/10/) — Take thy carriage out of the way, and make room for the chariot of our king!" - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/11/) — Then the charioteer of the king of Benares thought, "They say then that he too is a king! - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/12/) — What \_is\_ now to be done?" - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/13/) — After some consideration, he said to himself, "I know a way. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/14/) — I'll find out how old he is, and then I'll let the chariot of the younger be got out of the way, and so make room for the elder." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/15/) — And when he had arrived at that conclusion, he asked that charioteer what the age of the king of Kosala was. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/16/) — But on inquiry he found that the ages of both were equal. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/17/) — Then he inquired about the extent of his kingdom, and about his army, and his wealth, and his renown, and about the country he lived in, and his caste and tribe and family. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/18/) — And he found that both were lords of a kingdom three hundred leagues in extent; and that in respect of army and wealth and renown, and the countries in which they lived, and their caste and their tribe and their family, they were just on a par! - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/19/) — Then he thought, "I will make way for the most righteous." - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/20/) — And he asked, "What kind of righteousness has this king of yours?" - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/21/) — Then the chorister of the king of Kosala, proclaiming his king's wickedness as goodness, uttered the First Stanza: - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/22/) — "The strong he overthrows by strength, The mild by mildness, does Mallika; The good he conquers by goodness, And the wicked by wickedness too. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/23/) — Such is the nature of \_this\_ king! - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/24/) — Move out of the way, O charioteer!" - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/25/) — But the charioteer of the king of Benares asked him, "Well, have you told all the virtues of your king?" - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/26/) — "Yes," said the other. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/27/) — "If these are his \_virtues\_, where are then his faults?" replied he. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/28/) — The other said, "Well, for the nonce, they shall be faults, if you like! - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/29/) — But pray, then, what is the kind of goodness your king has?" - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/30/) — And then the charioteer of the king of Benares called unto him to hearken, and uttered the Second Stanza: - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/31/) — "Anger he conquers by calmness, And by goodness the wicked; The stingy he conquers by gifts, And by truth the speaker of lies. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/32/) — Such is the nature of \_this\_ king! - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/33/) — Move out of the way, O charioteer!" - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/34/) — And when he had thus spoken, both Mallika the king and his charioteer alighted from their chariot. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/35/) — And they took out the horses, and removed their chariot, and made way for the king of Benares! - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/36/) — Pride goeth before a Fall - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/37/) — In a certain village there lived ten cloth merchants, who always went about together. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/38/) — Once upon a time they had travelled far afield, and were returning home with a great deal of money which they had obtained by selling their wares. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/39/) — Now there happened to be a dense forest near their village, and this they reached early one morning. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/40/) — In it there lived three notorious robbers, of whose existence the traders had never heard, and while they were still in the middle of it the robbers stood before them, with swords and cudgels in their hands, and ordered them to lay down all they had. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/41/) — The traders had no weapons with them, and so, though they were many more in number, they had to submit themselves to the robbers, who took away everything from them, even the very clothes they wore, and gave to each only a small loin-cloth a span in breadth and a cubit in length. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/42/) — The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their property, now took possession of the robbers' minds. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/43/) — They seated themselves like three monarchs before the men they had plundered, and ordered them to dance to them before returning home. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/44/) — The merchants now mourned their fate. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/45/) — They had lost all they had, except their loin-cloth, and still the robbers were not satisfied, but ordered them to dance. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/46/) — There was, among the ten merchants, one who was very clever. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/47/) — He pondered over the calamity that had come upon him and his friends, the dance they would have to perform, and the magnificent manner in which the three robbers had seated themselves on the grass. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/48/) — At the same time he observed that these last had placed their weapons on the ground, in the assurance of having thoroughly cowed the traders, who were now commencing to dance. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/49/) — So he took the lead in the dance, and, as a song is always sung by the leader on such occasions, to which the rest keep time with hands and feet, he thus began to sing: - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/50/) — "We are enty men, They are erith men: If each erith man, Surround eno men Eno man remains. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/51/) — \_Tâ, tai, tôm, tadingana. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/52/) — \_" - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/53/) — The robbers were all uneducated, and thought that the leader was merely singing a song as usual. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/54/) — So it was in one sense; for the leader commenced from a distance, and had sung the song over twice before he and his companions commenced to approach the robbers. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/55/) — They had understood his meaning, because they had been trained in trade. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/56/) — When two traders discuss the price of an article in the presence of a purchaser, they use a riddling sort of language. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/57/) — "What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/58/) — "Enty rupees," another will reply, meaning "ten rupees." - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/59/) — Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade language. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/60/) — By the rules of this secret language erith means "three," enty means "ten," and eno means "one." - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/61/) — So the leader by his song meant to hint to his fellow-traders that they were ten men, the robbers only three, that if three pounced upon each of the robbers, nine of them could hold them down, while the remaining one bound the robbers' hands and feet. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/62/) — The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding the meaning of the song and the intentions of the dancers, were proudly seated chewing betel and tobacco. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/63/) — Meanwhile the song was sung a third time. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/64/) — \_Tâ tai tôm\_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before \_tadingana\_ was out of them, the traders separated into parties of three, and each party pounced upon a thief. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/65/) — The remaining one--the leader himself--tore up into long narrow strips a large piece of cloth, six cubits long, and tied the hands and feet of the robbers. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/66/) — These were entirely humbled now, and rolled on the ground like three bags of rice! - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/67/) — The ten traders now took back all their property, and armed themselves with the swords and cudgels of their enemies; and when they reached their village, they often amused their friends and relatives by relating their adventure. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/68/) — Raja Rasalu. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/69/) — Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salabhan, and he had a Queen, by name Lona, who, though she wept and prayed at many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/70/) — After a long time, however, a son was promised to her. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/71/) — Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will live to be a great man. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/72/) — But for twelve years you must not look upon his face, for if either you or his father see it before the twelve years are past, you will surely die! - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/73/) — This is what you must do; as soon as the child is born you must send him away to a cellar underneath the ground, and never let him see the light of day for twelve years. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/74/) — After they are over, he may come forth, bathe in the river, put on new clothes, and visit you. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/75/) — His name shall be Raja Rasalu, and he shall be known far and wide." - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/76/) — So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born into the world, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses, and servants, and everything else a King's son might desire. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/77/) — And with him they sent a young colt, born the same day, and sword, spear, and shield, against the day when Raja Rasalu should go forth into the world. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/78/) — So there the child lived, playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot, while the nurses taught him all things needful for a King's son to know. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/79/) — Young Rasalu lived on, far from the light of day, for eleven long years, growing tall and strong, yet contented to remain playing with his colt, and talking to his parrot; but when the twelfth year began, the lad's heart leapt up with desire for change, and he loved to listen to the sounds of life which came to him in his palace-prison from the outside world. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/80/) — "I must go and see where the voices come from!" he said; and when his nurses told him he must not go for one year more, he only laughed aloud, saying, "Nay! - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/81/) — I stay no longer here for any man!" - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/82/) — Then he saddled his Arab horse Bhaunr, put on his shining armour, and rode forth into the world; but mindful of what his nurses had oft told him, when he came to the river, he dismounted, and, going into the water, washed himself and his clothes. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/83/) — Then, clean of raiment, fair of face, and brave of heart, he rode on his way until he reached his father's city. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/84/) — There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers. — checked by a teacher - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/85/) — Now, as they passed him, their full pitchers poised upon their heads, the gay young Prince flung stones at the earthen vessels, and broke them all. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/86/) — Then the women, drenched with water, went weeping and wailing to the palace, complaining to the King that a mighty young Prince in shining armour, with a parrot on his wrist and a gallant steed beside him, sat by the well, and broke their pitchers. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/87/) — Now, as soon as Rajah Salabhan heard this, he guessed at once that it was Prince Rasalu come forth before the time, and, mindful of the Jogis' words that he would die if he looked on his son's face before twelve years were past, he did not dare to send his guards to seize the offender and bring him to be judged. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/88/) — So he bade the women be comforted, and take pitchers of iron and brass, giving new ones from his treasury to those who did not possess any of their own. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/89/) — But when Prince Rasalu saw the women returning to the well with pitchers of iron and brass, he laughed to himself, and drew his mighty bow till the sharp-pointed arrows pierced the metal vessels as though they had been clay. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/90/) — Yet still the King did not send for him, so he mounted his steed and set off in the pride of his youth and strength to the palace. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/91/) — He strode into the audience hall, where his father sat trembling, and saluted him with all reverence; but Raja Salabhan, in fear of his life, turned his back hastily and said never a word in reply. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/92/) — Then Prince Rasalu called scornfully to him across the hall: - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/93/) — "I came to greet thee, King, and not to harm thee! - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/94/) — What have I done that thou shouldst turn away? - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/95/) — Sceptre and empire have no power to charm me-- I go to seek a worthier prize than they!" - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/96/) — Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but, as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/97/) — So he cried sorrowfully, - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/98/) — "Oh heart crown'd with grief, hast thou nought But tears for thy son? - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/99/) — Art mother of mine? - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/100/) — Give one thought To my life just begun!" **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/page/2/) - ← previous: [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/) - next →: [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)