No. 28. — 1884.] first fifty jatakas. 



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the arrangement of introductory story and illustrative story 

 is merely artificial. Among the tales already mentioned 

 under various hands, there are seven flagrant instances of 

 this, and about the same number of less conspicuous cases. 

 In such the latter part is a mere repetition of the former. 

 This is evidently compiler's work, for the sake of uniformity. 

 Similarly, there are one or two cases in which stories 

 separately numbered are virtually the same, as when No. 44 

 tells how a boy killed his father in striking with a hatchet 

 at a mosquito on his head, and No. 45 how a girl killed her 

 mother by striking with a pestle at a fly on her back ; these 

 are duplicated, to make up the groups of 50, and of 10, into 

 which the stories have been forced by the compiler. These 

 are the packing ; the later part of the book. 



I will draw attention to two curious indications of the 

 compiler's hand, as it seems to me, in tales of this class. 



"Into many of the Jatakas there have been introduced 

 grammatical or other explanations ; as, for instance, in 

 No. 1, when a haunted and waterless desert is mentioned, 

 the mention is followed by a short but needless excursus 

 enumerating several kinds of desert, and ending: "Now, 

 among these kinds, this one was of the haunted and waterless 

 sorts." In other cases, still more pedantic notes are intro- 

 duced. Now, in the very simple story of the peacock, whose 

 impudent strutting lost him his swan-bride, the swan-king 

 is made, in the heat of his indignation, to draw a distinction 

 between sense of propriety or conscience, and sense of 

 shame — sense of propriety which has its origin within the 

 man, and sense of shame, which has regard to the opinion 

 of others. This looks at first sight like the work of the pe- 

 dant compiler. But the introduction to this story (32) is 

 connected with that of No. 6, and refers back to it. Now, 

 among the notes embodied in No. 6 is a very long and 

 interesting note on these two words. It seems to me 

 unquestionable that the same compiler who wrote the long 

 note on No. 6, and who refers in the introduction of No. 32 

 to No. 6, also inserted in No. 32 this frigid piece of pe- 

 dantry in reference to his own note* 



"The second indication I will mention is this. No. 16 is a 

 story about the cleverness of deer, and evidently merely 

 an expansion of a popular rhyme, that the deer has six tricks 



