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undaunted, placed his head on the queen's left thigh, and, stretching his body in a direction opposite to that of the king, fell asleep. What could the poor queen do? If she spoke and thus distarbed her lord in his sleep she would verily lose her head. But the monarch's sleep was soon disturbed ; our hero was a great snorer. The king rose up in a great fury, and a strange spectacle met his sight. A man asleep on the king's own bed with his head in the queen's lap! He gave a push to the impertinent head, and Ebhya rose up.
“How came you to dare this impertinence ?” asked the king. Ebhya came out with his long story, and the crowd of people, which had collected, caused the king to go outside. He now grasped the whole position,
"But what made you sleep in that posture ?" roared the king. Undaunted, Ebhya replied: -"Yathd rdja tatha prajáh: - as is the monarch so are the subjects. You slept in that posture, and so I did under the authority of that rule."
The monarch's anger was changed into laughter. Even the fierce king pitied the helpless idiot, who was so ready with his misapplied quotations. And thus ends the story.
NOTES AND QUERIES. TELUGU SUPERSTITIONS.
4. Emaciation follows the touch of the house. 1. Tit Paing continuously for three or four broom, while used in sweeping ont the house, 80 days and the female members of a Telugu family
in Telugu houses every body is asked to keep out are thereby prevented from leaving the house for
of the way of the broom while the house is being marketing, a small female child is sent out naked
swept out. into the rain with a burning piece of wood in her 5. If it rains steadily for three or four days, hand, which she has to shew to the rain. The a man throws a piece of steel at the god of the rain is then supposed to cease.
rain to make him kindly disposed and stop the 2. If a man suffers persistently from intermittent fever for a long while which he cannot 6. "Never spit on ordure: it will give you shake off, le must hug a bald-headed Brahman sore throat," say the Telugas. widow at the first streak of daylight. He is then
7. If a puppy runs between the legs of a cured.
child, it will suffer from dog-worms (kakku 3. If a man suffers from ophthalmis, he
nattala). sbould watch the reflection of his face in a pot full of oil belonging to an oil-seller, if he wishes to
Such superstitions must and do constantly fail, be cured.
but they are as popular as ever all the same. The repeated failure of these specifics has had
M. N. VENKETSWAMI. no effect on their universal popularity.
Nagpur, C.P.
rain.
BOOK-NOTICES. Aparlambiyadharmasdtram, Aphorisms on the Sacred other works of its own class, and among the other
Law of the Hindus, by Apartamba, ed. by Dr. G. writings attributed to the same author, its age BÖHLER, C. I. E., 2nd edition, revised. 2 parts,
and origin, style and language, have been amply Bomb. 1892, 1894.
discussed by Prof. Bühler in the introduction to The first edition of the present work, published
his translation of Apastamba, in the second volume in 1868 and 1871, was an editio princeps, and has
of the Sacred Books of the East. I may confine materially aided the progress of Sanskrit scholar
my remarks, therefore, to the main features of the ship in one of its most important branches, the
present now edition of the Sanskrit original of Dharmaldstra, & pastamba's Dharmasatra be
A pastamba's law book and the commentary on it. ing the best and most authentic specimen of the ancient collections of religious and civil laws which The Critical Introduction," which is at least originated in the Brahmanical schools of India. five times as extensive as it had been in the The various important questions concerning the previous edition, contains valuable new informaposition of Apastamba's manual of law among tion, both as regards the work of Apastamba
