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and said to the king : " Now shall I exercise royalty ; do you go 

 wherever on earth it pleases you." And the king, realizing his help- 

 lessness, turned away from his city. 



Because the trick king spoke irrelevantly in the presence of the 

 queen, she suspected him and consulted the aged Minister. He 

 began to distribute food among needy strangers, and, as he himself 

 washed their feet, he recited : 



" That which belongs to six ears is betrayed." 

 " Not if the hunchback is present," 



and asked each mendicant to recite the other half of the stanza. ^^ 

 The true king heard of this ; recognized in it the action of the queen, 

 returned as a mendicant, and, when the Minister recited as above, 

 he finished the stanza : 



" The hunchback became a king. 

 The king beggar and vagabond." 



The minister was satisfied with this evidence, and returned to the 

 queen whom he found wailing over a dead pet-parrot. He advised 

 her to call the false king and to say : " Is there in this city a magi- 

 cian who can make this parrot utter even a single word ? " The 

 fake king, proud of his newly won art, abandoned the royal body, 

 entered that of the parrot, and the true king recovered his own. 

 Then the Minister killed the parrot which had been reanimated by 

 the hunchback. 



Meghavijaya's version (ZDMG. LH. 649) is a straight ab- 

 breviation of this story. Yet briefer and somewhat tangled is the 

 version reported by Hertel from the South-Indian textus simplicior 

 of the Pancatantra ; see ZDMG. LXI. 27fif. This version is 

 clearly secondary to that of Galanos ; the names are all changed, 

 and the hunchback figures as an attendant of the king, being called 



-'■ On divided stanzas as a means of recognition see the story of Bambha- 

 datta, p. 18, lines 30 ff. (Jacobi, " Ausgewalilte Erzi-ihlungen in Maharastri "), 

 and cf. my essay on Muladeva, Proceedings of the American Philosophical 

 Society, LII. (1913), 644. On the completion of fragmentary stanzas see 

 Tawney's translation of Prabandhacintamani, pp. 6, 60; Hertelin ZDMG. LXI, 

 p. 22; and, in general, Zachariae in "Gurupujakaumudi," pp. 38 fif. ; Charpentier, 

 " Paccckabuddhageschichten," p. 35. Cloka as deus ex machina in Pargva- 

 natha Caritra 2. 660 ff. 



