A History of Indian Literature v2.c20.s2.84

v2.c20.s2.84

Side by side with legends and parables of this nature, we also encounter regular novels, tales of travellers' adventures, mariners' fairy-tales, robber tales and the like, in which the parable only appears in the form of a moral clumsily tacked on to the end.¹ In Chapter 8 the legend of Mallī, the only female Tīrthakara² is told, with that morality which, though sickly to our taste, is so characteristic of the monastic conception of life: