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Overview
The partridge asks why it has an ordinary partridge call in one place and a different voice in another. King Ādarśamukha answers that treasure lies under the second place, and advises the bird to reveal it and move away rather than remain in distress. The ending says that the other petitioners follow their instructions, without separately detailing the partridge’s departure. Unlike the crow and the quarrelling snake and ichneumon, this bird is not expressly given a former human identity; neither the strange voice’s words nor its sound is described.
Origins & earliest records
Indian Buddhist narrative preserved in Tibetan translation
Records & interpretation
Whole chapter and its footnotes directly read in the digitized1906 edition.
Selected bibliography
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
III, Ādarśamukha, pp. 29–36, partridge episodes pp. 33, 35–36; note cites Kah-gyur book ii. pp. 198–201
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — III Ādarśamukha
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906, title-page transcription independently checked. Tibetan Kah-gyur to German by F. Anton von Schiefner, then German to English by W.R.S.Ralston. CompleteIII29–36 and source/comparative note independently read, including royal succession tests, Daṇḍin suits and all animal petitions; source-language originals not collated.
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
III, Ādarśamukha. III, Ādarśamukha, pp. 29–36, partridge episodes pp. 33, 35–36; note cites Kah-gyur book ii. pp. 198–201
Complete chapter and all notes read. Translation’s canonical locator retained; original Tibetan not independently inspected. Actual endings, explicit identities and comparative material kept separate, with no death/kinship/anatomy inferred beyond the telling.
Located primary passages
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906, title-page transcription independently checked. Tibetan Kah-gyur to German by F. Anton von Schiefner, then German to English by W.R.S.Ralston. CompleteIII29–36 and source/comparative note independently read, including royal succession tests, Daṇḍin suits and all animal petitions; source-language originals not collated.
- A partridge asks why its ordinary call changes at a second spot. Ādarśamukha associates the altered voice with treasure buried there and advises revealing it to someone before moving away. The final sentence says the remaining petitioners follow the instructions; it does not individually identify the partridge’s recipient.
German-mediated English translation; Tibetan originals and listed comparative recensions not independently collated. Rebirth explanations are narrative speech, not external historical evidence. Page labels from transcription. Historical coercive legal threats not endorsed; no verse, ritual or devotional formula copied.
References
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- Historical translation of Buddhist narrativeSchiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales (1906), III, Ādarśamukha, pp. 29–36, partridge episodes pp. 33, 35–36; note cites Kah-gyur book ii. pp. 198–201Research access: 2026-10-05
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