Anali/tkal Account of the Panclia Tantra. lQ() 



The next story in the PancJia Tantra, and Kalila Damana, is that of The 

 Monkeys and Fire-fly ; and the moral is stated precisely to the same effect 

 in both, that it is absurd to try to bend a stubborn tree, or prove a sword 

 upon a stone. 



The story of Dhauma Buddhi and Dushta Euddhi, the honest man and 

 the rogue, as narrated in the Panclia Tantra, is faithfully followed in the Ara- 

 bic, with the exception of an interwoven story, omitted in the latter. It is 

 the story of the Vaca, or Crane, who tempted tlie Ichneumon to destroy the 

 Snake, and was afterwards destroyed by the same. The story occurs in the 

 Sand'lii section of the Hitupadeia. 



The witty story of The Rats who eat iron, and the Hawks that carry off 

 children, is the next in the Panclia Tantra, and Kalila Damana. It is the 

 last of the section in the latter ; but we have a few more stories in the fofmer 

 woi'k, as the story of The Two Parrots who learned respectively harsh and 

 gentle phraseology, according to their natural dispositions, to prove that 

 merits and defects are innate. 



The next story agrees, in name, with the last in the Kalila Damana, being 

 that of The King's Son and his Companions : the resemblance, however, 

 proceeds no farther, the incidents being quite different, although some, if 

 not all, of those in the Arabic tale, are to be found in other Sanscrit works. 

 In the Panclia Tantra, a Prince, a Minister's, and a Merchant's Son, pass their 

 days together in the woods and groves,hunting, lidingon horses,or elephants, 

 driving cars, and practising archery. Their fathers reproach them for their 

 neglect of their several duties ; and, in resentment, they determine to leave 

 their home. They go to Rohdncichald, (Adam's Peak in Ceylon), where they 

 find each a gem of great price ; and to preserve it, on their way back, through 

 the forests, where lay the Phellis, or Villages, of the Bhillas, they swallow 

 the gems, and then convey them home in safety, although they narrowly 

 escape being ripped open by the Palllpati, or chief of the foresters. 



The Prince acquires a sovereignty of his own, and leaving to his two 

 friends the direction of affairs, amuses himself in his palace, after his own 

 fasliion. He has a pet Monkey, as it is said " Parrots, Pheasants, Pigeons, 

 Monkeys, and their like, are naturally the especial favourites of Kings." 

 Tins Monkey he sets to watch him, as hesleeps in a pavillion, in his garden. 

 A troublesome bee settles on the Prince's face, in spite of the Monkey's 

 pains to drive him off; till the latter, highly incensed, snatches up his master's 

 sword, and, making a blow at the bee, cuts off the Raja's head. 



