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further in the passage referred to, we may see elephant, saw a crowd of people saying: 'Ah! in this adoption of story motifs the first step woe! When he had gone to that very place, he towards the embracing of Brahmanical Hindu saw an old serpent, large-bodied, with a very practices and motivations'. This caution dark body-color, swallowing a croaking frog seems necessary since both reviewers and that it had seized and glistening with the scholars writing to me privately have tended moisture from its distended? (starting) eyes, to find in the texts a reflection in all or most and with its face terrible and disagreeable to details of Kota beliefs and practices. the sight and its body very rapidly agitated References to these religious practices are on because it was being swallowed by a great all fours with Kota or any other peasant osprey, and the osprey also being swallowed references to kings-they are things that they by a great python hideous with its red eyes have merely heard of.
and with a body as thick as the trunk of an 10. To conclude, then-for one Kota motif, elephant of the quarters of heaven. Even that of cooking by the heat of the body in while the python was swallowing the osprey, 'primitive times and milieus, a Jain origin has it was also swallowing the old serpent, and been demonstrated with no other possibility. the old serpent the croaking frog. When the For a kota tale type, the 'Chain of king saw this fatality, illustrating the innate destruction' whose observers 'get religion, a
delusion in the world of the living, causing joy Jain origin is highly probable. In one other to the hearts of fools but disgust to the noble, case examined, Jain origin is possible but
he was dejected. And he thought: 'Alas! Since unprovable: the story in question seems to be this is the way things are, what expedient, a representative of a pan-Indic story, which
pray! is there in this world? The osprey is to be sure, has been populaarized in a form being swallowed by the python [12]. the that it took in the Jain literary tradition. In two serpent by the osprey and the frog by the other cases, Jain origin is possible, but the serpent! Even though they are thus on the context of the Kota stories rules it out. When point of death, they do not let one another go, Jain origin is spoken of, it is not meant that rather they proceed ever more violently and the Kotas were necessarily in this type of have not now gained release from one study is a good collection of folktale material another's destruction to enjoy life. Therefore, from Mysore, as well as one from the what am I to make of this affair that I have Badagas of the Nilgiris. And finally, in any seen, that admits of no remedy?' The furious folktale study which involves Jainism in elephant (ie the king) was terrified, went to South India, a most urgent need is knowl- his camping place, and camped with his edge of the contents of the Jain libraries in troops, and that which is fitting to be done Mysore and publication of the most important was done. Then when the night was half gone, and most popular of the Digambara Jain texts the king awoke from sleep. Remembering the with a large story-content.
fatality involving the python and the, he
proceeded to reflect as follows:... (3 vss.)... APPENDIX
The world, which is a trifle, like the frog, is A. The chain of destruction in Haribhadra's here swallowed up by another, like the Samaraiccakaha (Jacobi's ed.), p. 121, line 8
serpent. It too (is swallowed) by another to p. 123, line 2
which is like the osprey. It also is not free here, At that time, as his march was carrying him since it is subject to the python, death. In a to the bank of the Indus, at no great distance world so constituted, devotion to the objects
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