
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
A queen who fought the Company twenty-three years before 1857.
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My legs are pillars, my body the shrine.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
A Krishna murti in a ship's ballast.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
How Srinivasa Nayaka gave everything away.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
A hall where everyone could speak.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Strength for the sake of others.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Fifty-seven feet of stone, bathed every twelve years.
From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra
Tenali and the horse that would not eat.
From the original text · Oral tradition
The king who kept Tenali.
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Who will carry Tenali?
From the original text · Oral tradition
Wooden toys that shine.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The best dish in the world, said no one twice.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A prediction turned around.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A feast that cost nothing.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Why the king could not see the horse.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Silver from a copper pot.
From the original text · Oral tradition
The queen who fought the Portuguese by sea.
From the original text · Biographies
A bird that only said Rama.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A boy who ran away to find music.
From the original text · Biographies
Stories till sunrise.
From the original text · Art and music histories
Why the elephant did not pull.
From the original text · Oral tradition

Bitter and sweet, like a year.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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