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 FOLK-TALES OF INDIA. 875

Then the jackal spake the next qdtha: —

" The faults of others easy are to see, But hard indeed our own arc to behold. Thy husband thou hast lost and lover eke, And now, I ween, thou grievest o'er thy loss."

On hearing these words she replied: —

I know full well they to my case apply; From hence I'll go to take another spouse. His will I'll do and faithful be and kind."
 * ' king of beasts most true, in sooth, thy words,

When Indra heard the speech of that dissolute woman he uttered the concluding gdtha: —

" He who an earthen pot would basely steal. Will take, if chance arise, a golden bowl; So you, who now a wicked deed hath done. Will sin again when moved by fleshly lust."

After Indra had thus put this woman to shame, and caused her to feel remorse (for the wrong she had done), he went immediately to his own divine abode.

Note. — This story is perhaps the original of " The dog and the Shadow."

See the story of Su8R07^t in Thibetan Tales, pp. 232-234, and com- pare Pancatantra, iv. 9.

There is a Sinhalese version of the Pali story, entitled King Maname, contained in the Koldh-kavi-pota. See The Orientalist^ for August, 1884, pp. 184-186.

UbhatobhaWha JAtaka.*

The Covetous Fisherman.

In days long since past, when Brahmadatta reigned at Benares, the Bodhisat was reborn as a tree-sprite. At that time in a certain village there lived some fishermen. One day a certain fisherman took his hook, and, along with his little boy, he went and cast his hook into

♦ Jdtalia Booh, vol. i. No. 139, p. 482.