^222:4 I have omitted the names of three birds, parabhuta, celavaka, bhimkara, which are not found in the dictionaries.

^223:1 The translation here omits a long list of trees, etc., known for the most part, if at all, by their botanical equivalents in Latin.

^223:2 Here follows a long passage already given supra, p. 222.

^224:1 The scholiast seems to take the passage thus. Perhaps it may be rendered, "Who is this (paragon) thus described by you, a henpecked creature that you are?"

^225:1 i.e. the kings of Kosala and Kasi, the real and the putative father.

^225:2 The names of the five husbands are given: Ajjuna, Nakula, Bhimasena, Yudhitthila, Sahadeva.

^225:3 Meaning, "with head crushed down into his body.

^225:4 Jat. III. No. 327.

^225:5 Compare Tawney's Katha Sarit Sagara, II. 491-492.

^225:6 Reading mata ohaya Kosalarajanam.

^225:7 The lion's mouth is the fifth paw.

^226:1 The scholiast takes gamaniyo as equivalent to vesiyo.

^226:2 Jat. vol. III. No. 379, Neru jataka. Like Mt Neru, reflecting a golden hue on all objects alike.

^226:3 One MS. for dujjivha reads dujivha "double-tongued."

^226:4 Navasamakata can scarcely be right. The commentary gives as the epithet to Neru nibbisesakara. One reading gives navasamagata, speeding like a ship.

^226:5 Svayamvara was the public choice of a husband by a princess from a number of suitors assembled for the purpose. In the Mahabharata we have an account of the Svayamvara of Draupadi, daughter of the king of Pancala, afterwards the common wife of the five Pandu princes.

^228:1 setasamani. Amongst the Jains is an order of white-robed ascetics called s'vetambaras. Compare our White Friars.

^229:1 Reading tulaputto.

^229:2 Vol. III. No. 327, E. V. p. 60.

^232:1 This seems to require like the other nouns some qualifying epithet.

^232:2 accavadati. Morris in P. T. S. Journal for '86, p. 100, quotes a passage from Suttavibhanga II. p. 263.

^233:1 kumkumi, kumkumiyajata is not found. The scholiast says kolahalam karoti.

^236:1 Compare Buddhaghosha's Parables, Ch. XIX. The Story of the Sense of Touch.

^237:1 dvaravasi, meaning perhaps an inhabitant of a poor quarter. Cf. dvaragama, a village outside the city gate, a suburb.

^241:1 kanna, apparently Skt skanna, but one would have expected the compound to be pakkanna. Cf. Pischel, Gramm. der Prakrit-Sprachen, section 206.

^241:2 papa, a roadside shed where travellers are supplied with water. Cf. Jat. I. 302. 3.

^242:1 utthahaka. See Dhammapada 280, anutthahano, and its archaic form in the Journal Asiatique, IXme Ser., tome XII. p. 215, where from the verbal base utthah we find an analogous form anuthahatu.

^242:2 For fear it may harbour a snake.