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Overview
The fugitive fisher-lad enters the water and is taken into a Nāga residence. King Sūryanemi sends snake-charmers whose preparations threaten the community through spells, prompting the youth to flee into Pingala’s wilderness. The Nāgas debate saving him, fearing harm if he dies. Their king tells them to inform the charmers; they report that the youth has effectively been killed through their contrivance because he entered that dangerous place. This statement is misleading: the youth survives and the human king continues the search. No individual Nāga name, visible body form or successful rescue from the wilderness is specified.
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
XVII, The Fulfilled Prophecy, pp. 273–278, especially p. 276; 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, especially p. 276; 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
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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 chaptersXVII273–278/XVIII279–285/XXI291–295 and their notes read; Tibetan and German originals not collated.
- Nāgas shelter a pursued royal son raised by a fisherwoman. When the king sends snake-charmers to threaten them with spells, the youth flees into Pingala’s wilderness. The nāgas discuss protecting him and tell the charmers he has been killed by their contrivance there; the narrative actually continues with his survival. Their report is not proof that they killed him.
XVII The Fulfilled Prophecy, complete273–278; nāga residence276; source note Kah-gyuriv.ff233–236
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, especially p. 276; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 233–236Research access: 2026-10-05
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