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Overview

Bidhata-Purusha tells his sister that her daughter will marry a dead bridegroom. The mother tries to avoid this fate by leaving the country, but their travels bring the daughter to Dalim Kumar’s garden-house. He is dead by day and alive by night, so their eventual marriage fulfills the prediction through the prince’s unusual condition.

Day’s note describes Bidhata-Purusha as the deity who predetermines human life and writes an outline of its events on an infant’s forehead on the sixth day after birth. The sister believes that what he has written cannot be changed. The account supplies a named religious figure and a fate-writing role, but no bodily description or express identification with another deity.

Destiny-writing deity whose niece is fated to marry a dead bridegroomSpecific Bengali narrative witness
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Origins & earliest records

Bengali oral storytelling translated by Lal Behari Day

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tale, attached notes,1883 preface and1912 edition credits directly read.

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    Folk-Tales of Bengal

    Lal Behari Day, collector and translator · 1912

    I, Life’s Secret, pp.8–10 and note3, within complete tale1–15; first edition1883, illustrationsWarwickGoble

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Primary records and illustrations

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Lal Behari Day, Folk-Tales of Bengal (Macmillan,1912; first edition1883)

I. I, Life’s Secret, pp.8–10 and note3, within complete tale1–15

Complete tale and footnotes read, pluspreface andeditionhistory. Bengali oral informants described collectively, individual teller of this tale not identified. Original paraphrase; no source-image verification claimed.

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  1. Historical translated oral narrative and collector notesLal Behari Day, Folk-Tales of Bengal (1912), I, Life’s Secret, pp.8–10 and note3, within complete tale1–15Research access: 2026-10-05

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