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 TABLE II.

THE KALILAG AND DAMNAG LITERATURE.

1. A lost Buddhist work in a language of Northern India, ascribed to Bidpai. See above, pp. lxx-lxxii.

2. Pēlvī version, 531-579 A.D. By Barzūyē, the Court physician of Khosru Nushīrvan. See above, p. xxix.

3. Syrian version of No. 2. Published with German translation by Gustav Bickell, and Introduction by Professor Benfey, Leipzig, 1876. This and No. 15 preserve the best evidence of the contents of No. 2, and of its Buddhist original or originals.

4. (Fables of Bidpai). Arabic version of No. 3, by Abd-allah, son of Almokaffa. Date about 750 A.D. Text of one recension edited by Silvestre de Sacy, Paris, 1816. Other recensions noticed at length in Ignazio Guidi's 'Studii sul testo Arabo del libro di Calila e Dimna' (Rome, 1873).

5. English version of No. 4, by Knatchbull, Oxford, 1819.

6. German version of No. 4, by Wolff, Stuttgart, 1839.

7. Greek version of No. 4, by Simeon Seth, about 1080 A.D. Edited by ''Seb. Gottfried Starke, Berlin, 1697 (reprinted in Athens, 1851), and by Aurivillius,'' Upsala, 1786.

8. Latin version of No. 7, by Father Possin, at the end of his edition of Pachymeres, Rome, 1866.

9. Persian translation of No. 4, by Abdul Maali Nasr Allah, 1118-1153. Exists, in MS. only, in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.

10. Persian translation, through the last, of No. 4, by Husain ben Ali el Vāiz U'l-Kāshifī; end of the fifteenth century.

11. English version of No. 10, by Edward Eastwick, Hertford, 1854.

11a. Another English version of No. 10, by Arthur N. Wollaston (London, Allen).

12. French version of No. 10, by David Sahid, d'Ispahan, Paris, 1644, 8vo.

13. Italian version of No. 7, Ferrara, 1583; by Giulio Nūti. Edited by Teza, Bologna, 1872.