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like the personification of Sin ; like the heart of iniquity ; like the monitor 

 of the wicked ; like the friend of Death." This description is reduced to 

 " like fate," in the Hitupadesa ; and in the Arabic, to " ill looks, and the 

 net and the staif." 



The Hitupadeia is singular in the story told by Chitragriva, of " The 

 Traveller and the Tigei'," to dissuade the Pigeons from descending on the 

 grain. The Pancha Tantra, again, is alone in the story, told by the same, to 

 recommend unanimity, of " the Varunda," a bird with two necks, one of 

 refusing to part with a share of nectar, the other swallowed poison, and 

 the bird died. 



Tiie other circumstances of this story are continued, alike in all, 

 to the formation of the friendship between the Rat, and the Crow; but 

 the discussion is much more protracted, and contains much more mat- 

 ter, peculiarly Hindu, in the Pancha Tantra, than in either of the other 

 works. The Rat replies to the Crow's protestations, " I have no faith in 

 your oaths ; as it is said, ' Put no faith in a foe, who even lias vowed friend- 

 ship to you : Vritra was killed by Indra, in spite of his reiterated 

 oaths.'* Again, « An enemy of the Gods is not to be destroyed until 

 he places trust in them. The embryo of Diti was destroyed by Indra, 

 only when she ceased to fear him.' " 



In another passage we have allusions to some traditions, which are 

 but little known. — 



" He that observes, ' I might say, I abound with amiable qualities, and no 

 one can be inclined to do me harm,' speaks that which is ridiculous. It is 

 related that the valuable life of Pan'ini (the grammarian) was destroyed 

 by a lion ; and an elephant demolished the sage Jaimini, though he 

 coniposed the Mimdnsd ; an alligator killed the harmonious Pingala 

 (the first writer on Prosody), on the sea-shore. Of what estimation is 

 genius, with irrational and ferocious brutes." 



Although the arguments, on either side, are continued for several pages, 

 tliey are not intermixed with any narrative illustration in the Pancha 

 Tantra, or KaUla-Damana. On the contrary, the Hitdpadeia inserts here 



» The story is narrated in several of the Punm'a.i, and is alluded to in the Rig- Veda. As. Res. 

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