[Note. In the gatha I have translated not the meaningless kalahi of Fausboll's text, nor the easy variant kalehi, which is substituted in the gloss, but kalahi, the more difficult reading which occurs in some Sinhalese MSS, and which is read by Fausboll in the analogous story No. . This reading is also given by Dickson in J. R. A. S. Ceylon, 1884, p. 188, from the Jataka Pela Sanne. If kalehi be read, the translation becomes, "I do not try to teach one who has played truant seven times." In the J. R. A. S. Ceylon, 1884, p. 125, Kunte says, "I have little doubt that kalahi is the original form of the popular sing-song, and kalehi a mistake for it, and that on this mistake the grammarian compiler has built up his silly little story about the deer who would not go to school."]

Footnotes

^47:1 See the interesting Life of this theri in Mrs Bode's 'Women Leaders of the Buddhist Reformation' (J. R. A. S. 1893, pp. 540-552), where it is explained that Uppala-vanna "came by that name because she had a skin like the colour in the heart of the dark-blue lotus."

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