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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1883.
a drink of water, good mother, for I am half began to thunder and lighten terribly. Wheredead of thirst."
upon Little Ankle Bone cried out :" It is not water, but milk, my son," replied
Kylli gunjae, badald garkande ? the old woman," which I got from the Milky
Gaj karak sáre des; Pond yonder."
Ohnán hirnián de than pasmde : "The Milky Pond," cried the king, and began
Gitetá Rám giá pardes.' enquiring. After a while he determined to go Oh why do you thunder and lighten, dark and see it for himself. When he reached it and
heavens ? saw all the animals drinking out of the marble Your noise is as nothing to what will arise, basins and heard Little Ankle Bone playing When the does that are waiting in vain for the ever so sweetly under the oak tree, he said milking, aloud :-"I'll have the little piper if I die Find poor Little Ankle Bone reft from their
eyes. No sooner did Little Ankle Bone hear this | He wept and wailed so that the king, seeing than he set off at & run with the king after he had but an ankle bone in his hand let the him. Never was there such a chase, for Little little creature go back to the pond. And there Ankle Bone hid himself in the thickest briers Little Ankle Bone still sits under the oak-tree and thorns, and the king was determined to playing on his shepherd's pipe, while all the have the little piper.
animals of the forest come to listen and drink At last the king caught him and instantly it out of the marble basins.
for it.”
EARNESTNESS IN CHINESE BUDDHISM.
BY THE REV. JOSEPH EDKINS, D.D., PEKIN.
(Extracted from " the Catholic Presbyterian," August 1882). Buddhism in China has passed through in almost all cases their duties are light. In many phases, and at different periods has large monasteries they are under rule. In the shown great skill in fashioning its doctrines small monasteries each does 9 he pleases, and to the varying hour. By transcendental philo- in most cases does very little. They have sophy it has won the learned, and by the charge of the temporalities of the monastery metempsychosis the people. By a lofty ascetic and of funeral services in families. In some morality it has attracted those whose hearts cases they conduct daily service in the monasare made warm by representations of the beauty teries. In other cases they go out on begging of self-denial and contempt for worldly dis- expeditions among the rich of adjoining cities, tinctions, while by an ingenious logic it has proceeding in companies, and chanting prayers fascinated the intellect of many a youthful on the way. The priest in charge of a monasreader, whose successive objections to its doc- tery with its lands, holds a deed. In many trines have been met and overcome by the instances he can part with this for money to persevering use of pictorial metaphor.
another priest, at his discretion. In most cases, The majority of the monks are indolent and however, he is simply placed over the property without religious aspirations. They live in free by the chief residents of the neighbourhood. quarters with hardly anything to do, encour. In no case can he properly or honestly sell the aged in idleness by the monastic system wbich property. He should, indeed, have no property takes them away from the pursuits of industry at all, and of this his shaven head is evidence. to pass a life of quiet meditation in the company with the shorn locks goes the worldly gear of of others like-minded with themselves. Their the neophyte. The vow of celibacy is accomnew home may be in the city, the mountain, or panied by a vow of total abstinence from wine the village, or beside a highway or a river. But and flesh of every kind. Bat these rules do
Lit., why echo, O thundering clouds Roar and common amongst all the wandering cattle-drovere' chilthunder through all the land; the teats of the does yonder dren. In the Bar, wolves are very common, and the story are full of milk; Giteta Rám (Mr. Ankle Bone) has gone Beems to point to a belief in some invisible shepherd, away-R.C.T.
& Bort of Spirit of the Bår, whose pipe may be heard. Of. This story, told by small boy in the Bar (forest; Grimm's Singing Bone.'-F. A. S. thickly-wooded jangal) of the GujranwALA District, is!
