
A laugh at a thousand faces and one mouth.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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A laugh at a thousand faces and one mouth.
From the original text · Oral tradition

Draw a shorter line without touching it.
From the original text · Oral tradition

How King Vikram came to carry Betal.
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)

Under the streetlight, where it is brighter.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A trader outwitted by his own house.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A camel ride across the desert.
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The girl who fetched the silver tree.
From the original text · Thakurmar Jhuli
The song that dropped the vadai.
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Lambikin, lambikin, I'll eat you!
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The sparrow's house of wax and the crow's house of dung.
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Why the wooden god has short arms.
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The girl and the serpent prince.
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How many stars, where is the centre, how many crows?
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Betal's first riddle.
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)
Chakli and the dana.
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Kesar Kalmi, the horse who flew.
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Two brothers and a rakshasi.
From the original text · Thakurmar Jhuli
A trunk full of water.
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Twelve children of one mother.
From the original text · Aithihyamala
Makad ani usachi kandi.
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The chariot that everyone pulls.
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Sheep and snow.
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Tenali and the horse that would not eat.
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Who was the true husband?
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)
Saurashtra's own deer.
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And lost his ears.
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A monkey and an owl who were princes.
From the original text · Thakurmar Jhuli
The Silappadikaram for children.
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The madman who rolled the boulder.
From the original text · Aithihyamala
Who is the cleverest?
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A grandmother who tricked a lion.
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Bulbul and the lake.
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Cooking over a lamp three feet away.
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Are men or women worse?
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)
And then died.
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A doll that told the truth.
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A promise kept even after the bite.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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