[INDOLOGY] Princess Niwal Dai - a query

[Artur Karp]

Sorry. "The Legends of the Punjab" is the title of the Patiala reprint. The
title of the original Bombay/London edition (1884!) is "The Legends of the
Panjâb".

Artur

2015-08-29 0:23 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Sir Richard Temple published the legend of Niwal Dai ("as sung by two
> scavengers from Bibiyal village near Ambala") in the 1st Volume of his
> monumental The Legends of the Punjab (1882, pp. 418-528; reprint 1962,
> Language Department, Punjab, Patiala).
>
> I am not aware of any work devoted to this legend. Am I right in
> suspecting that this text has not aroused interest among Indian folklore
> specialists?
>
> Is there, by any chance, a new - and possible richer - version of the
> text? Hindi? Panjabi? A new translation?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Artur Karp
>
> Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Pali (ret.)
> South Asian Studies Deptt
> Oriental Faculty
> University of Warsaw
> Poland
>


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