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Overview
On the return voyage from the Island of Jewels, a sea monster damages Kshemaṅkara’s ship near the shore and renders it unusable. The prince carries his brother Pāpaṅkara to land as promised. The monster receives no name, dimensions, bodily description or further action. It is not explicitly a whale, serpent, Makara or Nāga, and the later blinding of the exhausted prince is his brother’s human crime, not the creature’s attack.
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
“an injury inflicted by a sea monster”
XVIII The Two Brothers, hosted printed-page marker281 · W.R.S.Ralston, English from Schiefner’s German Tibetan translation
The narrative supplies the cause of the damaged return-voyage ship without describing the monster’s body.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources
XVIII, The Two Brothers, pp. 279–285, especially p. 281; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 186–189
- 02
Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XVIII The Two Brothers
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)
XVIII, The Two Brothers. XVIII, The Two Brothers, pp. 279–285, especially p. 281; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 186–189
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.
- On the return from the Island of Jewels a sea monster damages the ship until it is unusable. Kshemaṅkara carries his brother ashore, then falls asleep exhausted. His brother steals hidden jewels and blinds him. The monster has no supplied anatomy, name, deliberate motive or later death.
XVIII The Two Brothers, complete279–285; sea monster281; source note Kah-gyuriv.ff186–189
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), XVIII, The Two Brothers, pp. 279–285, especially p. 281; note cites Kah-gyur iv. ff. 186–189Research access: 2026-10-05
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