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Mongolian

Buddhist and traditional narrative literature of the Mongol and Kalmyk peoples in historical English editions.

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Sagas from the Far East — Rachel Harriette BuskRachel Harriette Busk’s anonymous 1873 English retelling, for young readers, of two Kalmyk and Mongolian story-cycles of Indian origin, the Siddhi-kür tales of the Well-and-wise-walking Khan and the saga of Ardschi-Bordschi and Vikramâditja’s throne, made from earlier European translations and given with her historical preface, long explanatory notes and a glossary-index.