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# VIII. Loving Laili.

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VIII. Loving Laili. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 17 sentences and 173 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/2/) — \_--Miss Stokes, \_Indian Fairy Tales\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/3/) — 73-84.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/4/) — Majnun and Laili are conventional names for lovers, the Romeo and Juliet of Hindostan.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/6/) — \_--Living in animals' bellies occurs elsewhere in Miss Stokes' book, pp.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/7/) — 66, 124; also in Miss Frere's, 188.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/8/) — The restoration of beauty by fire occurs as a frequent theme (Temple, Analysis, III. vi. f. p. 418).
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/9/) — Readers will be reminded of the \_dénouement\_ of Mr. Rider Haggard's \_She\_.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/10/) — Resuscitation from ashes has been used very effectively by Mr. Lang in his delightful \_Prince Prigio\_.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/11/) — \_Remarks.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/12/) — \_--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/13/) — They are possibly a relic of the days of Aryan conquest, when the fair-skinned, fair-haired Aryan conquered the swarthier aboriginals.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/14/) — The name for caste in Sanskrit is \_varna\_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/15/) — \_Cf.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/16/) — \_ Stokes, pp.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/17/) — 238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero.

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