Kiranmala (folktale)
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Kiranmala braves the mountain of perils. Illustration by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | Kiranmala |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 707 (The Three Golden Children; The Three Golden Sons) |
| Region | Bengal, Indian Subcontinent |
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Kiranmala (Bengali: কিরণমালা) is a Bengali folktale collected by author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder and published in the compilation Thakurmar Jhuli (Bengali: ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag [of tales]), a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales.
The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", a cycle of stories a woman promises a king she will bear a child or children with wonderful attributes, but her jealous relatives or the king's wives plot against the babies and their mother. Many variants of the tale type are registered in the Indian Subcontinent, although they comprise specific cycles in this country. In one of the cycles, the king's children are sent on dangerous quests to find marvellous items.