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Overview
Six hares flee when a vilva tree falls into a lake. Their alarm spreads through increasingly large animals until even lions are running. A maned lion at the mountain’s foot, described as seeming to wear a diadem, stops them and traces each report backward through the chain to the hares. They show him the forest, where he identifies the fallen tree as the harmless source of the noise. A deity then voices the moral about checking reports. The crown-like appearance is a comparison, not an independently specified royal ornament or extra anatomy.
Origins & earliest records
Indian Buddhist narrative preserved in Tibetan translation
Records & interpretation
Whole chapter and its footnotes directly read in the digitized1906 edition.
In the literature
“for that was only an empty sound”
XXII The Flight of the Beasts, hosted printed-page marker298 · W.R.S.Ralston, English from Schiefner’s German Tibetan translation
The lion’s explanation after tracing the panic to the falling tree.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
XXII, The Flight of the Beasts, pp. 296–298; note cites Kah-gyur vii. 194
- 02
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XXII The Flight of the Beasts
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 chaptersXX288–290 andXXII–XXVIII296–313 with all notes independently read; source-language originals not collated.
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
XXII, The Flight of the Beasts. XXII, The Flight of the Beasts, pp. 296–298; note cites Kah-gyur vii. 194
Complete chapter and footnotes read. Kah-gyur locator is the historical edition’s own, not an independently read Tibetan manuscript. Speaking animal acts separated from rhetorical accusations, moral commentary and inferred anatomy.
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 chaptersXX288–290 andXXII–XXVIII296–313 with all notes independently read; source-language originals not collated.
- Six hares flee when a tree falls into a lake. Their alarm spreads through a long chain of animals until a maned lion asks each group where the news originated. Tracing the report back to the hares, he examines the place and identifies the falling tree’s empty noise. The animals are reassured; neither a new monster nor an actual invasion caused the panic.
XXII The Flight of the Beasts, complete296–298; note Kah-gyurvii.194
German-mediated historical English translation, not direct Tibetan manuscript inspection. Whole book not claimed read. Page labels are hosted transcription markers, not separate facsimile collation. No ritual, spell formula, verse, medical procedure or modern adaptation copied.
References
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- Historical translation of Buddhist narrativeSchiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales (1906), XXII, The Flight of the Beasts, pp. 296–298; note cites Kah-gyur vii. 194Research access: 2026-10-05
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