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Overview
Tegrijin Naran Dâkinî sits in contemplation inside a guarded cave. Stone goats warn that a man who makes her speak twice may take her home, but five hundred unsuccessful royal suitors are imprisoned at her feet. Vikramâditja enters with companions whom he has transformed into an altar, lamp, incense vessel and string of devotional beads.
He tells two stories and has the transformed companions give intentionally wrong judgments. Naran first corrects their interpretation of a woman created from wood, then condemns a wife who killed her husband after hearing a stranger’s lovely voice. Having spoken twice, she willingly accompanies Vikramâditja as his wife; the companions and imprisoned princes regain their natural forms.
Busk’s note glosses her name as the Dâkinî sun of the gods. The text also uses Naran-Chatun, a royal female title. Its literary use of Dâkinî is not a complete account of that Buddhist sacred category. The next frame passage names a different chief wife, Tsetsen Budschiktschi, without explicitly identifying her with Naran; the names are not merged here.
Origins & earliest records
Mongolian transmission of an Indian-derived tale, mediated by European editions and Busk’s adaptation
Records & interpretation
Busk’s 1873 Sagas from the Far East, Vikramâditja makes the Silent speak, pp. 294–307, introduces Tegrijin Naran and her challenge on pp. 295–296. Associated editorial notes are on pp. 404–405.
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Sagas from the Far East
Vikramâditja’s Deeds291–308, including Silent Speak294–307; notes404–405
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Primary records and illustrations
Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East (1873)
Vikramâditja’s Deeds. 291–308; notes404–405
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- Historical literary adaptationBusk, Vikramâditja’s Deeds291–308 and notesResearch access: 2026-10-05
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