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chandala* the lowest of the low in point of caste ; men, who 

 by reason of their mean birth, were regarded as fit for 

 nothing but the office of public executioners:! but such of 

 my readers as are read in Bhudhistical scriptures, know that 

 Mahadugia " the great beggar," whose destitute circum- 

 stances had been like those of Lazarus in the parable of our 

 Lord, was raised to the nobility, on his acquiring a great 

 treasure by his meritorious conduct towards Bhudhism. 



There is also an instance in the Eat ana walia, of a poor 

 Situ's servant acquiring great wealth by reason of his chari- 

 ties, and of his thereupon being created a situ or nobleman. 

 The legend, after describing the nature of his charities and 

 their result, proceeds thus : — 



©S)3®cs)3C3©o<b58 8§©d>cs<55<*oc£b Sg^aos^g 

 That is to say : — 



" They heaped up the gold in the compound ; and the heap 

 was about eighty cubits high. The King summoned the 

 citizens and inquired of them, if there was any other in the 

 city who owned such an immense wealth. They replied, that 

 insignificant men could not possess so much, when His Majesty 

 himself had it not. When the King had heard this reply, 



* "The Sadol or Chandala is represented as one who is born in the open air; 

 his parents not being possessed of the smallest hut. where, as he lies among the 

 pots when his mother goes to cut firewood, he is suckled by the bitch along with 

 her own pups." — Hardy on Budkism, p. 86. 



f See Wilson's Hindu Theatre, vol. i. p. 1.59. 



