Charaka

Family: Panchāla · Role: parrot and spy of Mahaushadha · First appears: Chapter VIII

In Chapter VIII, Mahaushadha named Charaka, his clever and honest parrot, as the one he would send. At the palace of Panchāla, Charaka asked a maina, “Will not you, O good one, be my wife?”

Charaka escaped the king of Panchāla’s attempt to burn the palace by setting it ablaze and diving underwater. The next day, the king plucked him bare and threw him from a window, where a falcon seized him. On the following day, Charaka demanded daily offerings of red raw meat, sesamum, and rice porridge from the king.

Relationship record

Life events

• Charaka escaped the king of Panchāla’s attempt to burn it by setting the palace ablaze and diving underwater.(Chapter VIII · 📍 the royal palace)
  • With: the king of Panchāla (Chapter 8) the parrot Māṭhara (Chapter 8)
  • “When its tail had been wrapped in cotton and drenched with mustard-oil, and when all this had been set on fire, and the bird was let go to fly up into the air, it set the whole of the royal palace in a blaze, and then dived under water.”
• The king of Panchāla plucked Charaka bare and threw him from a window, where a falcon seized him.(Chapter VIII)
  • With: the king of Panchāla (Chapter 8)
  • “The king of Panchāla in his rage plucked it quite bare, made a mere lump of flesh of it, and with the words, ‘Go and get eaten,’ flung it out of the window. Thereupon a falcon snapped it up.”
• Charaka demanded daily offerings from the king of Panchāla and threatened further harm.(Chapter VIII)
  • With: the king of Panchāla (Chapter 8)
  • “You must bring day by day as an offering of food a whole measure full of red raw meat, sesamum, and rice porridge.”

Chapter VIII

• admired: the maina in the palace of Panchāla (Chapter 8) “Will not you, O good one, be my wife?”
• guardian: Mahaushadha “‘O king,’ said Mahaushadha, ‘be at ease. I have a parrot called Charaka, who is clever and honest. Him will I send.’”

Also listed in Panchāla — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources. Made with Rho MD.