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 Nevill. — SinJialese Folk-lore. 425 preacher, and at daylight he ceased his persecution, and made great offerings to her virtuous devotion. Yakkhavanchita wastuwa. — At Tunda, in Kosala land, lived the upasaka (devotee) Buddhadasa. One day a man possessed by a devil came to the place, and as he approached the upasaka's house, it left him. On his return after a few days the devil again seized him. The devil explained that he could not accompany him to the upasaka's house be.cause of the sarana (religious faith). The man asked what " sarana" was, and when told by the simple- minded devil, his victim repeated it, and was free. Hence the title, " yakkha vanchita", or the devil tricked. This exists in the two later works, but is not in the fragment of the Thousand Tales as known to me. Vy&gra wastuwa ("The Tiger Story") is the tale of a tiger which lived with its blind father in a cave, in a tunnel through a hill in a forest near Benares. A parrot named Tundila lived at the entrance, and warned a man of the tiger. The man killed and ate the parrot. The tiger met him, and he said, as the parrot had told him to, that he was a friend of Tundila's, and had been to see him. The tiger, believing that he was a friend of his friend the parrot, let him go. The blind tiger-father, how- ever, recognised by the man's voice the real facts. While the tiger went to see if these were true, the man killed the Wind tiger, and lay in wait for the other. His courage, however, oozed out, and he begged for mercy. The tiger spared him.

PJialaka wastuwa. — A man of Sravasti went on a journey to the north country, and lay down to chew betel. A man of the north country came and asked for water. He said he had none. He asked for betel, and the man offered him a leaf for a kahawanna coin. (A gross extortion.) Of necessity he bought it, and went on. Afterwards both again met, and were wrecked in one ship. The north countryman caught a plank with which to swim. The extortioner was sinking. The north countryman gave hin» the plank to help him, and was himself sinking, when an ocean god put him ashore, and fetched his companion also. The ocean god then told them that he had helped them because of the great charity of the man who gave up his plank.

The tiger tale, and this, are not included in the fragment of the Sahassavatthu known to me.