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# XIV. Lac of Rupees.

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XIV. Lac of Rupees. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 16 sentences and 166 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/pg7128/45/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/2/) — \_--Knowles, \_Folk-Tales of Kashmir\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/3/) — 32-41.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/4/) — I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/6/) — \_--See \_Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. xxii., "Tale of Ivan," from the old Cornish, now extinct, and notes \_ibid.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/7/) — \_ Mr. Clouston points out (\_Pop.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/8/) — Tales\_, ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/9/) — 319) that it occurs in Buddhist literature, in "Buddaghoshas Parables," as "The Story of Kulla Pauthaka."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/10/) — \_Remarks.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/11/) — \_--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall than in the land of its birth, but there can be little doubt that the Buddhist version is the earliest and original form of the story.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/12/) — The piece of advice was originally a charm, in which a youth was to say to himself, "Why are you busy?
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/13/) — Why are you busy?"
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/14/) — He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate share.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/15/) — It would perhaps be as well if many of us should say to ourselves "\_Ghatesa, ghatesa, kim kárana?
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/45/16/) — \_"

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