Preferred Citation: Ramanujan, A. K. A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Berkeley London:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft067n99wt/

 
Bride for a Dead Man

Note

[AT 934B, The Youth to Die on his Wedding Day (but cf. Thompson and Roberts, Types of Indic Oral Tales, type 336, The Bridegroom and the Picture of the Tiger; and Jason, Supplement, type 934B-*A, Escape from Death. Cf. also Motif E 121.1, Resuscitation by a god.) This tale includes elements of both the Markandeya story and the Savitri story, which are told widely in India.]

Bride for a Dead Man
 

Preferred Citation: Ramanujan, A. K. A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Berkeley London:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft067n99wt/