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ADDITIONAL NOTE.
I may here add a remark on the Parable of the Three Merchants, see p. 29 f., which agrees with Matthew xxv. 14 and Luke xix. 11. It seems, however, to have had a still greater resemblance to the version of the parable in The Gospel according to the Hebrews, as will appear from the following passage from Eusebius' Theophania (ed. Migne's Patrologia Graeca, iv. 155), translated by Nicholson, The Gospel according to the Hebrews (London, 1879):
The Gospel, which comes to us in Hebrew characters, has directed the threat not against the hider, but against the abandoned liver. For it has included three servants, one which devoured the substance with harlots and flute-women, one which multiplied, and one which hid the talent : one was accepted, one only blamed, and one shut up in prison.' I owe this quotation to my colleague Arnold Meyer.
Taking into consideration (1) that the Gaina version contains only the essential elements of the parable, which in the Gospels are developed into a full story; and (2) that it is expressly stated in the Uttaradhyayana VII, 15 that this parable is taken from common life,' I think it probable that the Parable of the Three Merchants was invented in India, and not in Palestine.
H. J.
