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Overview
Chaura and Bhaura accompany the expedition in which the king causes his son-in-law, the Saru Prince, to vanish beneath a filling tank. The king forbids the men to tell his daughter but overlooks the two dogs. When she questions them in song, they disclose what happened, enabling her mourning at the water’s edge and the prince’s eventual restoration. They are explicitly named speaking dogs; no extraordinary anatomy or kinship between them is stated.
Origins & earliest records
Santal Parganas, eastern India; source-specific Santali storytelling
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant tale and preface directly read; exact locator identified.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas
LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, pp. 230–232
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909)
Historical Santal narrative collection. LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, pp. 230–232
Relevant tales completely read along with full preface. Bodding/Murmu/Bompas mediation explicitly retained; original Santali manuscripts not independently inspected. Narrative supernatural claims distinguished from independently verified history or medicine.
References
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- Historical translation of collected narrativesBompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909), LXXV, The Caterpillar Boy, pp. 230–232Research access: 2026-10-05
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