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lxxx as the number of the verses, is not logically carried out; and the round numbers of the stories in the first four divisions are made up by including in them stories which, according to the principle adopted, should not properly be placed within them. Thus several Jātakas are only mentioned in the first two Nipātas to say that they will be found in the later ones; and several Jātakas given with one verse only in the First Nipāta, are given again with more verses in those that follow; and occasionally a story is even repeated, with but little variation, in the same Nipāta.

On the other hand, several Jātakas, which count only as one story in the present enumeration, really contain several different tales or fables. Thus, for instance, the Kulāvaka Jātaka (On Mercy to Animals) consists of seven stories woven, not very closely, into one. The most striking instance of this is perhaps the Ummagga Jātaka, not yet published in the Pāli, but of which the Siŋhalese translation by the learned Baṭuwan Tudāwa

2 No. 30=No. 286. No. 68=No. 237. „ 34 = >> 216. J, 86= „ 290. „ 46 = J J 268. J) 102= „ 217, „ 57 = >> 224. 3 So No. 82 = „ 99 = „ 134 = „ 195 = „ 294 = = No. — 5 t, 104. 101. 135. 225. 295, 145=,, 198. Compare the two stories Nos. 23 and 24 translated below.