Excerpt from The Ocean of Story, Vol. 6 of 10: Being C. H. Tawney"s Translation of Katha Sarit Katha (or Ocean of Streams of Story)
With the present volume, the sixth, Mr Penzer begins the second half of his great task of annotation and revision, but his fourth volume completed the reprint of the first of Mr Tawney"s volumes, of which the second volume is about a tenth longer than the first. Mr Penzer"s new edition is also expanded by the inclusion (in its second half) of valuable appendixes giving long accounts of, and notes upon, those portions of Somadeva"s verses which have appeared separately under the names respectively of the Panchatantra and Vetdlapanchavimsatu The index of subjects in Mr Tawney"s second volume is, like those in all old, and I fear I might quite justly add nearly all modern, works of its class, very short(13? pages of index to 1220 pages of text) and imperfect, so that it is often of small utility in tracing any particular story or incident to which one may desire to refer. The Cambridge Press edition of The Jataka has endeared itself to scholars by its final volume containing an elaborate index of the whole, and Mr Penzer promises to earn our gratitude in like fashion by a tenth and final volume containing not only a Bibliography but also an exhaustive Cross-Index, which will come as a boon and a blessing to students of comparative storyology, whether like Benfey and the late very erudite Emmanuel Cosquin they believe in the ultimate birthplace in India of the general mass of folk-tales, or whether they regard Indian folk-tales themselves as showing, in some cases at least, signs either of a primitive common origin with European folk-tales or of Western influence or contact, such as, for example, the probable derivation of the vetala or vampire, to whom relate the last eight stories in the present volume, from Southern Russia and Central Europe, as already suggested by Sir Richard Temple.
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