350 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
possessed of vigour, ee he had a huge body and a gracetul 
appearance. He lived in a forest-home near a bend of the 
Ganges. In that sak of the Ganges there lived a Sumsumara ' 
with his wife. His wife conceived a desire to eat the flesh 
of the Bodhisat’s heart. In order to satisfy his wife’s cra- 
nd 
various other sweet fruits. and offered to carry the Bodhisat 
on his back. No sooner did Sumsumara reach the mid-river 
with the Bodhisat on his back than he tried to drown him. The 
monkey knowing the cruel intention of Sumsumara, devised, 
es a Bodhisat, at once a means of escape. ‘‘ Thou must be 
1,’ he said, “to kill me thus, if thou really wantest my 
haat, which I left behind me hanging ona bunch of figs.”” St um- 
on the latter’s promise that he would offer him his heart. The 
Bodhisat, reaching the shore there climbed a glomorous fig- 
tree (udumbara-rukkha) and seated in it, ‘Friend 
Sumsumara, thou must have been a fool to believe that the 
heart of a living creature could be found hanging on a tree! 
Thou hast been deceived. Thou must fare as thou deservest. 
I for my part must be content with the figs within my reach 
and consider them to be of far greater werth than the mangoes 
and other sweet fruits that are on the other shore 
From this it is clear that the Bharaut seulpture opis 
only the concluding portion of the story, i.e., the scene of t 
monkey admonishing Sumsumara and bidding farew ol to isi E 
2. Plate XLIII, 4.—The inscription serving to label 
this sculpture is read and eaualeiee differently by General 
nen and Dr. Hultzsch :- 
! Whether Surhsumara (8k. Sigumara) denotes a cea or a 
Porpoise is sr to dispute. Childers in his Pali ‘Selanne Pp: 488, says, 
‘*The Sanskrit equivalent is said to mean the Gangetic porpoise, Delphi- 
nus Gangeticus. But epithet ‘ child-killing ’ though perfectly appro- 
ate to a crocodile, can surely not be app to any sort us.” 
In b the Pali and the Sanskrit versions, Summsumara spea 
nt o_o (Jalagocara). But seei that the latter 
used to ‘* come on the shor 
bag thinking rath it w nia. of a crocodile or alligator species. In one 
Place of the story the animal is distinctly called a kumbhila or kumbhira. 
As to t e Surhsumara’s fatal desire, the Pali and the 
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: ccording to t he Pali version, the reason was that she was then 
with child and according to the Sanskrit version that she tried to 
or | fragment is not available for reproduction. The photo 
graph aiven in Cunningham is fad d not yield repro- 
tee I he probability of the author’s conjecture 
inde ently, a professional draftsman has been asked to prepare an 
ose. It will be seen that i copy shows that the monkey, to 
him, is not in the act of eating a frui 
