Book X.

Chapter LVII.

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• Continuation of the story of Udayana and his son      1–10
• Story of the porter who found a bracelet      1–2
• Story of the inexhaustible pitcher      2–4
• Story of the merchant’s son, the hetæra and the wonderful ape Ála      4–10

Chapter LVIII.

• Continuation of the story of Udayana and his son      10–17
• Story of king Vikramasinha, the hetæra and the young Bráhman      11–13
• Story of the faithless wife who burnt herself with her husband’s body      13–14
• Story of the faithless wife who had her husband murdered      14
• Story of Vajrasára whose wife cut off his nose and ears      14–16
• Story of king Sinhabala and his faithless wife      16–17

Chapter LIX.

• Continuation of the story of Udayana and his son      17–26
• Story of king Sumanas, the Nisháda maiden, and the learned parrot      18–26
• The parrot’s account of his own life as a parrot      19–21
• The hermit’s story of Somaprabha, Manorathaprabhá, and Makarandiká      21–25
• Episode of Manorathaprabhá and Raśmimat      22–23

Chapter LX.

• Continuation of the story of Udayana and his son      27–43
• Story of Śúravarman who spared his guilty wife      27
• Story of the ox abandoned in the forest, and the lion, and the two jackals      27–43
• Story of the monkey that pulled out the wedge      28
• Story of the jackal and the drum      30
• Story of the crane and the Makara      31–32
• Story of the lion and the hare      32–33
• Story of the louse and the flea      34
• Story of the lion, the panther, the crow and the jackal      35–36
• Story of the pair of ṭiṭṭhibhas      36–38
• Story of the tortoise and the two swans      37
• Story of the three fish      37–38
• Story of the monkeys, the firefly and the bird      39
• Story of Dharmabuddhi and Dushṭabuddhi      40–41
• Story of the crane, the snake, and the mungoose      41
• Story of the mice that ate an iron balance      41–42

Chapter LXI.

• Continuation of the story of Udayana and his son      41–63
• Story of the foolish merchant who made aloes-wood into charcoal      44
• Story of the man who sowed roasted seed      44
• Story of the man who mixed fire and water      44
• Story of the man who tried to improve his wife’s nose      45
• Story of the foolish herdsman      45
• Story of the fool and the ornaments      45
• Story of the fool and the cotton      45
• Story of the foolish villagers who cut down the palm-trees      46
• Story of the treasure-finder who was blinded      46
• Story of the fool and the salt      46–47
• Story of the fool and his milch-cow      47
• Story of the foolish bald man and the fool who pelted him      47
• Story of the crow, and the king of the pigeons, the tortoise and the deer      48–52
• Story of the mouse and the hermit      49–51
• Story of the Bráhman’s wife and the sesame-seeds      50–51
• Story of the greedy jackal      50
• Story of the wife who falsely accused her husband of murdering a Bhilla      53–54
• Story of the snake who told his secret to a woman      54–55
• Story of the bald man and the hair-restorer      55
• Story of a foolish servant      55
• Story of the faithless wife who was present at her own Śráddha      55–56
• Story of the ambitious Chaṇḍála maiden      56
• Story of the miserly king      57
• Story of Dhavalamukha, his trading friend, and his fighting friend      57–58
• Story of the thirsty fool that did not drink      58
• Story of the fool who killed his son      58
• Story of the fool and his brother      58
• Story of the Brahmachárin’s son      59
• Story of the astrologer who killed his son      59
• Story of the violent man who justified his character      59–60
• Story of the foolish king who made his daughter grow      60
• Story of the man who recovered half a paṇa from his servant      60
• Story of the fool who took notes of a certain spot in the sea