# Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit — Character guide

> Key figures in Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit by S. M. Mitra.

- [Putraka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/putraka.md): Putraka rules the very land his father and uncles fled, and his first act as king is to seek them out and lavish them with houses and money. His generosity is genuine but dangerously blind: he cannot see that the three o
- [Sringa-Bhuja](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/sringa_bhuja.md): Sringa-Bhuja is the beloved youngest son of King Vira-Bhuja, favored above his brothers and heir to a kingdom he never gets to enjoy. When the jewelled arrow he looses wounds a magician in bird form, he follows the trail
- [Rupa-Sikha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/rupa_sikha.md): Rupa-Sikha lives in Dhuma-Pura, the city of her father Agni-Sikha, a great magician who loves no strangers and can wear any shape he chooses. When she learns that the wandering prince before her is the archer who shot he
- [Kadali-Garbha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/kadali_garbha.md): Kadali-Garbha moves through a tale where wit is the only weapon a woman is allowed, and she wields it with patience rather than defiance. Her story pits her against powerful men and supernatural obstacles that demand she
- [Subha Datta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/subha_datta.md): Subha Datta is a kind father and steady provider whose life changes the moment he gains a pitcher that supplies whatever he asks. He hides it from his wife and children, dodges the neighbors who follow him into the woods
- [Hiranya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/hiranya.md): Hiranya lives in a burrow beneath the ground where the pigeons' net falls, and his teeth make short work of the string that holds them. When the crow Laghupatin approaches with compliments and a proposal of friendship, H
- [Agni-Sikha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/agni_sikha.md): Agni-Sikha belongs to the tale-world where elemental forces take human shape and bargain with ordinary people. His name suggests flame, and like fire he is both useful and dangerous, demanding respect rather than affecti
- [Dhairya-Sila](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/dhairya_sila.md): Dhairya-Sila serves Surya Pratap as the one adviser the Raja can truly trust, until a false accusation sends him to a tower to die. Rescued by his clever wife Buddhi-Mati and a small beetle, he tells his master an eagle 
- [The Brahman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/the_brahman.md): The Brahman appears across these tales as a figure of learning and ritual authority, the kind of man others consult and respect. Yet his stories often turn on a flaw, whether greed, pride, or misplaced trust, that expose
- [The Prince](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/the_prince.md): The Prince moves through these tales as the natural center of courtly life, surrounded by advisers, servants, and expectation. His tension lies between the authority he inherits and the judgment he must earn, often teste
- [The Woodcutter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/the_woodcutter.md): The woodcutter lives simply, selling wood from the forest to feed his wife and children, and the tale lingers on his kindness as a father. His world is small and warm, which makes the troubles that follow feel personal r
- [Hari-Sarman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/hari_sarman.md): Hari-Sarman sits in prison while the king's gold and jewels remain missing, and Jihva's visits give him the clues he needs to seem all-knowing. He extracts the thief's identity from her, promises silence, then leads the 
- [Prasnajit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/prasnajit.md): Prasnajit belongs to the world of Hindu kingship, where a ruler's duty extends beyond governance into the cultivation of discernment and self-mastery. His name itself signals the tale's deeper concern: the capacity to in
- [Patala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/patala.md): Patala occupies the delicate position of royal daughter, where marriage, duty, and desire are rarely permitted to align. Her name carries the weight of hidden depths, suggesting a nature that resists easy reading by suit
- [Vidya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/vidya.md): Vidya appears in a tale where learning is not merely ornamental but a form of power, and she embodies that principle with unsettling clarity. She is the kind of figure who asks the question no one else dares to voice, fo
- [Dridha-Varman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/dridha_varman.md): A character in a tale.
- [Vira-Bhuja](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/vira_bhuja.md): A character in a story.
- [Poor Pussy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/poor_pussy.md): Poor Pussy enters the narrative as a creature of small consequence, the sort of animal a woodcutter's children might feed scraps to without a second thought. Yet in the moral economy of these tales, the treatment of the 
- [Guna-Vara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/guna_vara.md): A character in a story.
- [Mana Kanaka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/mana_kanaka.md): A character in a tale.
- [The Servant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/the_servant.md): A servant who appears in various stories.
- [Jihva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/jihva.md): A character in a tale.
- [Matri-Datta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/matri_datta.md): A character in a story.
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/the_doctor.md): A doctor who appears in a tale.
- [Laghupatin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/laghupatin.md): A character in a story.
- [Mandharaka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/mandharaka.md): A character in a tale.
- [Buddhi-Mati](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/buddhi_mati.md): A mouse character in a story.
- [Deva-Jnanin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/deva_jnanin.md): A character in a tale.
- [Dhuma-Sikha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/dhuma_sikha.md): A character in a tale.
- [Ayasolekha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/ayasolekha.md): A character in a story.
- [Surya Pratap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/surya_pratap.md): A hot-tempered Raja who punishes harshly.
- [Fairies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/fairies.md): Magical beings who appear in a tale.
- [Marut](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/marut.md): A character in a story.
- [Siva](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/siva.md): The Hindu god who appears in a story.
- [Asoka-Mala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hindu_tales_from_the_sanskrit_se/characters/asoka_mala.md): A character in a tale.

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