^285:1 Compare No. 30, Vol. i. p. 75, and No. 477; parallels are quoted by Benfey, Pancatantra pref. pp. 228, 229. Aesop's fable of the Calf and the Ox will occur to the reader. See also Rhys Davids' note to his translation of No, 30.

^285:2 No. 477.

^286:1 Lit. edible lotus root.

^286:2 Hetthamanca, 'perhaps the platform outside the house under the eaves, a favourite resort.' Cp. Rhys Davids, Buddhist Birth Stories, p. 277.

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