--- title: IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., «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/pg7128/40/) [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/) / IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Ja… # IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal. IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 29 sentences and 415 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/pg7128/40/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/2/) — \_--Steel-Temple, \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/3/) — 116-20; first published in \_Indian Antiquary\_, xii. p. 170 \_seq. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/4/) — \_ - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/5/) — \_Parallels. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/6/) — \_--No less than 94 parallels are given by Prof. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/7/) — K. Krohn in his elaborate discussion of this fable in his dissertation, \_Mann und Fuchs\_, (Helsingfors, 1891), pp. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/8/) — 38-60; to which may be added three Indian variants, omitted by him, but mentioned by Capt. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/9/) — Temple, \_l. c.\_, p. 324, in the \_Bhâgavata Purâna\_, the \_Gul Bakâolî\_ and \_Ind. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/10/) — Ant. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/11/) — \_ xii. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/12/) — 177; and a couple more in my \_Æsop\_, p. 253: add Smeaton, \_Karens\_, p. 126. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/13/) — \_Remarks. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/14/) — \_--Prof. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/15/) — Krohn comes to the conclusion that the majority of the oral forms of the tale come from literary versions (p. 47), whereas the \_Reynard\_ form has only had influence on a single variant. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/16/) — He reduces the century of variants to three type forms. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/17/) — The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present day, as well as in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century, and the \_Fabulæ Extravagantes\_ of the thirteenth or fourteenth: here the ingrate animal is a crocodile, which asks to be carried away from a river about to dry up, and there is only one judge. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/18/) — The second is that current in India and represented by the story in the present collection: here the judges are three. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/19/) — The third is that current among Western Europeans, which has spread to S. Africa and N. and S. America: also three judges. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/20/) — Prof. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/21/) — K. Krohn counts the first the original form, owing to the single judge and the naturalness of the opening, by which the critical situation is brought about. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/22/) — The further question arises, whether this form, though found in Egypt now, is indigenous there, and if so, how it got to the East. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/23/) — Prof. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/24/) — Krohn grants the possibility of the Egyptian form having been invented in India and carried to Egypt, and he allows that the European forms have been influenced by the Indian. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/25/) — The "Egyptian" form is found in Burmah (Smeaton, \_l. c.\_, p. 128), as well as the Indian, a fact of which Prof. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/26/) — K. Krohn was unaware though it turns his whole argument. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/27/) — The evidence we have of other folk-tales of the beast-epic emanating from India improves the chances of this also coming from that source. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/28/) — One thing at least is certain: all these hundred variants come ultimately from one source. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/29/) — The incident "Inside again" of the \_Arabian Nights\_ (the Djinn and the bottle) and European tales is also a secondary derivate. - ← previous: [VIII. Loving Laili.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/39/) - next →: [X. the Soothsayer's Son.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)