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Overview
Two monkey chiefs each lead five hundred followers. One, identified in the narration as a Bodisat, dreams of being put alive into a cauldron with his troop and moves away. The other rejects the warning. A later quarrel between a servant and a sheep causes a stable fire, and a physician prescribes monkeys cooked in barley meal for the burned elephants. Hunters capture the remaining troop, fulfilling the feared outcome. The prescription is part of the story’s chain of violence, not an effective treatment established by the account.
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.
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
XLIII, Incredulity Punished, pp. 350–351; note cites Kah-gyur iv. 246
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XLIII Incredulity Punished
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 XL–XLIX344–359 and all notes independently read. Tibetan/German source-language originals not collated; footnoted comparisons not promoted to separately inspected works.
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
XLIII, Incredulity Punished. XLIII, Incredulity Punished, pp. 350–351; note cites Kah-gyur iv. 246
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. Complete selected XL–XLIX344–359 and all notes independently read. Tibetan/German source-language originals not collated; footnoted comparisons not promoted to separately inspected works.
- One monkey chief dreams of himself and his five hundred followers alive in a cauldron. He leaves and warns a second chief, who refuses to abandon his domain. Later a sheep ignited by a servant’s firebrand burns the elephant stable. The royal doctor prescribes monkeys for the injured elephants, and the remaining troop is caught and put alive into the cauldron.
XLIII Incredulity Punished, complete350–351; note Kah-gyuriv.246
Historical German-mediated English rendering; Tibetan originals and footnoted comparative works not independently collated. Page labels from hosted transcription. Religious/moral assertions remain narrative framing. No verse, ritual, prayer, medical preparation or modern adaptation copied.
References
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- Historical translation of Buddhist narrativeSchiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales (1906), XLIII, Incredulity Punished, pp. 350–351; note cites Kah-gyur iv. 246Research access: 2026-10-05
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