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Overview
A nesting crow flatters a jackal that has found a corpse, and the two exchange grand comparisons before sharing the food. A nearby Rishi insults them and their surroundings. The crow answers angrily, then enters his kitchen and breaks the vessels. Discovering the damage, the Rishi resolves not to address her again, whether with praise or blame. Their descriptions of the jackal as lion-like and the crow as peacock-like are flattery, not hybrid anatomy. The passage’s insulting judgments about a deceased person and scavengers remain the Rishi’s rhetoric rather than factual rankings of human or animal worth.
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
XLVIII, The Revengeful Crow, pp. 356–357; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 231
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Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources — XLVIII The Revengeful Crow
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.
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
Schiefner/Ralston, Tibetan Tales Derived from Indian Sources (London, 1906)
XLVIII, The Revengeful Crow. XLVIII, The Revengeful Crow, pp. 356–357; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 231
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 XL–XLIX344–359 and all notes independently read. Tibetan/German source-language originals not collated; footnoted comparisons not promoted to separately inspected works.
- A body excluded from sex-separated cemeteries is left near a hermit’s dwelling. A crow and jackal flatter each other to share the remains. The hermit insults them and the deceased; the crow retaliates by breaking his pots and pitchers. He recognizes the culprit and resolves to keep silent rather than prolong the quarrel.
XLVIII The Revengeful Crow, complete356–357; note Kah-gyuriv.f231
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), XLVIII, The Revengeful Crow, pp. 356–357; note cites Kah-gyur iv. f. 231Research access: 2026-10-05
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