--- title: V. the Broken Pot. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: V. the Broken Pot., «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/) [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/) / V. the Broken Pot. # V. the Broken Pot. V. the Broken Pot. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 24 sentences and 436 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/2/) — \_--\_Pantschatantra\_, V. ix., tr. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/3/) — Benfey, ii. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/4/) — 345-6. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/5/) — \_Parallels. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/6/) — \_--Benfey, in § 209 of his \_Einleitung\_, gives bibliographical references to most of those which are given at length in Prof. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/7/) — M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (\_Selected Essays\_, i. 500-76), which is entirely devoted to the travels of the fable from India to La Fontaine. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/8/) — See also Mr. Clouston, \_Pop. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/9/) — Tales\_, ii. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/10/) — 432 \_seq. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/11/) — \_ I have translated the Hebrew version in my essay, "Jewish Influence on the Diffusion of Folk-Tales," pp. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/12/) — 6-7. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/13/) — Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," is ultimately to be derived from India. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/14/) — \_Remarks. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/15/) — \_--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the \_Arabian Nights\_, and of La Perette, who counted her chickens before they were hatched, in La Fontaine, are demonstrably derived from the same Indian original from which our story was obtained. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/16/) — The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/17/) — I have given a rough summary of the chief critical results in the introduction to my edition of the earliest English version of the \_Fables of Bidpai\_, by Sir Thomas North, of Plutarch fame (London, D. Nutt, "Bibliothèque de Carabas," 1888), where I have given an elaborate genealogical table of the multitudinous versions. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/18/) — La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to us all, comes from Bonaventure des Periers, \_Contes et Nouvelles\_, who got it from the \_Dialogus Creaturarum\_ of Nicholaus Pergamenus, who derived it from the \_Sermones\_ of Jacques de Vitry (see Prof. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/19/) — Crane's edition, No. li.), who probably derived it from the \_Directorium Humanæ Vitæ\_ of John of Capua, a converted Jew, who translated it from the Hebrew version of the Arabic \_Kalilah wa Dimnah\_, which was itself derived from the old Syriac version of a Pehlevi translation of the original Indian work, probably called after Karataka and Damanaka, the names of two jackals who figure in the earlier stories of the book. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/20/) — Prof. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/21/) — Rhys-Davids informs me that these names are more akin to Pali than to Sanskrit, which makes it still more probable that the whole literature is ultimately to be derived from a Buddhist source. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/22/) — The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the \_literary\_ transmission of tales from Orient to Occident. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/23/) — It also shows the possibility of an influence of literary on oral tradition, as is shown by our proverb, and by the fact, which Benfey mentions, that La Fontaine's story has had influence on two of Grimm's tales, Nos. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/24/) — 164, 168. - ← previous: [IV. 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