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Overview
Pingala consumes flesh and blood in a wilderness abandoned by animals and people for fear of him. Seeing the fugitive fisher-lad, he remembers a prediction that this youth will kill him and releases his dogs. The boy climbs a tree while Pingala and the dogs wait below. When the Yaksha sleeps, the boy drops part of his clothing onto him. The dogs mistake their master for the falling prey, eat him and leave, allowing escape. The text supplies an ascetic’s cloth but no horns, wings, gigantic stature or canine transformation. The prophecy and killing belong to this Buddhist narrative witness, not an independently attested wilderness event.
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
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
XVII, The Fulfilled Prophecy, pp. 273–278; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 233–236
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XVII The Fulfilled Prophecy
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. Complete selected chaptersXVII273–278/XVIII279–285/XXI291–295 and their notes read; Tibetan and German originals not collated.
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
XVII, The Fulfilled Prophecy. XVII, The Fulfilled Prophecy, pp. 273–278; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 233–236
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
Specific passages supporting details in this entry, grouped by their published witness.
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. Complete selected chaptersXVII273–278/XVIII279–285/XXI291–295 and their notes read; Tibetan and German originals not collated.
- The flesh-and-blood-eating yaksha Pingala has emptied his wilderness of animals and humans through fear. He sets dogs on the fugitive, who climbs a tree. When Pingala sleeps at its foot, the youth drops clothing; the dogs mistake this for the youth falling and eat their master. The boy descends and continues his escape.
XVII The Fulfilled Prophecy, complete273–278; Pingala encounter276–277
Historical German-mediated English translation. Chapter’s Kah-gyur folios are attributed source notes, not independent Tibetan manuscript inspection. Printed-page markers are hosted transcription labels, not separate facsimile collation. No prayer, spell, ritual, medical recipe or modern translation copied.
References
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- Historical translation of Buddhist narrativeSchiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales (1906), XVII, The Fulfilled Prophecy, pp. 273–278; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 233–236Research access: 2026-10-05
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