| Folk-Tales of Bengal: with original illustrations Contributor(s): Behari Day, Lal (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798735603139 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Asian American |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.73 lbs) 244 pages |
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| Publisher Description: There was a king who had two queens, Duo and Suo.1 Both of them were childless. One day a Faquir (mendicant) came to the palace-gate to ask for alms. The Suo queen went to the door with a handful of rice. The mendicant asked whether she had any children. On being answered in the negative, the holy mendicant refused to take alms, as the hands of a woman unblessed with child are regarded as ceremonially unclean. He offered her a drug for removing her barrenness, and she expressing her willingness to receive it, he gave it to her with the following directions: -"Take this nostrum, swallow it with the juice of the pomegranate flower; if you do this, you will have a son in due time |