________________ Notes: 23 of the preceptor with great respect, and with his eyes full of the tears of joy. But' Avimrus'yakari stood there as motionless as a moun. tain without even slightly bending down his body, inhaling smoke, and emitting out the fire of malice. Then the preceptor asked him : " How is it that you do not fall at my feet?" ilo' replied: "He, who is well-taught; will fall at your feet, not I". The preceptor said: " How do you say that you are not well taught ? " Then he revealed to him the whole account. Then the preceptor asked' Vimrus'ya kari: "Boy! tell me how did you know this ?") Then he said: "At your advice I began to ponder over thus :-that these foot-prints are well-known as those of an elephant, but when I reflected over it further, whether they were of an elephant or of a she-elephant and seeitig their corporeal size I decided that they were of a she-elephant. Again I found that the shieelephant had completely cut down a bower of Valli-creepers which fornis her substinence on her right side, but not on the left. Henee I decided that she was blind by the left eye, Again I reflected that a person possessed of such a retinue, and mounted upon an elephant, cannot be other than a royal person; and that
