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The passage of the third story, relative to the profits of trade, it is not 

 very easy to render in a satisfactory manner, as the technical terms em- 

 ployed are no longer in use. 



The Gdshtika Itarma appears to imply the management of lands for others, 

 by the expression illustrative of it ; but the Farichitta-grdhakagama is by 

 no means clear. One copy alone attempts to explain it. Parichittam 

 agachchantan grahacam utcant'haya vilocya sresht'hi hridaye hrishiyate: 

 The merchant is delighted at heart, when with affected sorrow he sees an 

 acquaintance coming (as a borrower). 



The musical pretensions of the ass, and the beating they procure for him, 

 form a fable with which all children are familiar. The recapitulation of 

 musical terms that occurs, is, however, rather curious, and exceeds the 

 limits, to which Siii William Jones and Mr. Pateuson have carried their 

 explanation of the musical language of the Hindus. The seven notes are 

 common to the Hindu scale, and that of Europe. The Gramas are scales. 

 Of these, the Madhyama Grama is identified by Mr. Paterson with the 

 major, and the Ga7idhura with the minor, mode. The Miirch'hanas he 

 considers as the intervals of the scale. There are seven to each grama, or 

 twenty-one in all. Tula is the division of time ; and the Mdtrds and Layas 

 refer to the same, no doubt. The first possibly implying the duration of 

 the bars, tlie second that of the notes, and the third that of the rests, or 

 pauses. Of the remaining members of the list, in their purely musical 

 sense, I cannot here attempt an explanation.* 



The story of the weaver may remind us of the three wishes, to which, 

 however, in point and humour, it is vastly inferior. That of So'ma-Sarma 

 is given in the Kalila Damana, and Hltopadesa. It is in substance the same 

 also as that of Alnaschar, in the Arabian Nights. As related in the Aydr 

 Danish of Abulfazal, it is translated in the first volume of the Asiatic 

 Miscellany. 



The story comprised within the last, of the Rdkshasa who got upon the 

 Brahman's shoulders, contains the hint of the old man who proved so 

 troublesome to Sinbad, in his fiftli voyage ; and who makes so prominent a 

 figure also in the Hindi story of Kdmarupa and Kdmalatd, translated by 



• As relating to vocal music, several of the terms may here be understood in their ordinary 

 tense : matrd refers to syllabic length, or vowel sounds ; varnnas are consonants ; bhashd signifies 

 language ; and g(ld tune or song H.T.C. 



