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"have no use for this penniless gallant, whereas Ayala is a stupendous 

 giver who keeps on sending much wealth ; attach yourself to him with 

 all your soul ! Two swords do not go into one scabbard, and one 

 -does not polish a non-precious stone.^^ Therefore drop this gam- 

 bler ! " Devadatta answered her : " I am not, my mother, bent upon 

 money alone ; to noble qualities rather is my inclination." Her 

 mother asked of what sort were the noble qualities of that gambler, 

 and Devadatta retorted : " Mama, he is altogether made up of 

 virtues : 



" He is wise, of noble soul, a very ocean of kindliness ; skilled in 

 the arts, pleasant of speech, grateful, devoted to virtue, and of 

 discerning mind; therefore I shall not give him up! " 



Then the mother started to convert her by means of sundry- 

 symbols : when Devadatta asked for red lac she gave it her dry ; 

 when she asked for sugar-cane she gave it her squeezed ; when she 

 asked for flowers she gave her mere stems."^ And when pressed to 

 explain, she said: "Of such sort is that most beloved of thine, and 

 yet you will not give him up." But Devadatta thought that the 

 mother was foolish in offering such illustrations. 



(By way of counter-illustration) Devadatta then said to her 

 mother : " Mama, ask Ayala for sugar-cane I " She spoke to him, 

 whereupon he sent a cart-load. Devadatta burst out: " What, am I 

 a she-elephant, to have sent me such a load of cane with leaves 

 and branches?" The mother pointed out that he must surely be 

 liberal to have sent in this wise. (Of course) Ayala had figured 

 that Devadatta would share with others. Next day Devadatta said 

 to Mahavi : " My dear, tell ]\Iuladeva, Devadatta has a craving for 

 sugar, therefore send her some ! " She went and told him. Xow 



20; Samayamatrka i. 40 ff. ; and especially 4. 9 ff. The Mama's greed for 

 money comes out, ibid., 4. 80; her hostility to poor lovers of her charge, 

 ibid., 5. 80 fif. 



51 The rendering of the second of these proverbs is not quite certain. 



52 These three symbols state technically how a hetaera should estimate 

 her lover in dollars and cents. They appear to be borrowed directly from 

 Samayamatrka 5. 78: "After she (the hetaera) has sucked him (the lover) 

 dry, and his serviceableness is at an end, she should throw him off like a 

 squeezed stick of sugar-cane ; for a withered flower disfigures the place where 

 it has been put, and is removed from the braid of hair." 



PROG. AMER. PHIL. SOC, LII, 212 \V, PRINTED DEC. l6, I913. 



