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Folk Tales of India — Part 5 of 81 (The Story of Swet-Basanta)
Season 15
Episode 5
Published 3 days, 15 hours ago
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Folk Tales of India — Part 5 of 81 (The Story of Swet-Basanta)
Two brothers, Swet and Basanta, are driven from home by a stepmother's hatred. The royal elephant chooses Swet for a king; Basanta is carried off to a merchant's house, where his tears fall as pearls and his laughter as jewels — and a faithful wife, lost in the forest with her newborn child, holds the thread that brings them all together again.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.
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