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which all the gods are born, so, when fullgrown, let him be born in the same manner; let himn not cause the loss of this his mother.'
2. [ Vámadeva speaks.] Let me not ooino forth by this path, for it is difficult (of issue): let mo come forth obliquely from the side: many acts unperformed by others are to be accomplished by me: let me contend (in war) with ono (enerny) in controversy with one opponent.
3. 'He (Indra) has asserted (that it will) cause the death of my inother : let me not proceed by the usual way, but proceed quickly, according (to my will)."'-Wilson's Rig Veda, 111, pp. 153f.
The idea of perfect knowledge of learning in early boyhood is not confined to the Buddhists. The Jains have a simitar story about the last of their great suints. According to them: “When Mahárírato the story goes, and it is with slight variations repeated over and Qver again--was about right years old, his parents thought it time that he should learn to read and write. With greut pomp, they Avvorilindly took him to school and introduced him to the Guru. Then Indra. lay the shaking of his throno advised of what wus going on bere below, cainy down from heaven, assumed the forin of an old Brálinau, and asked the clubit to solve the grammatical difficulties by which the mind of tle (iuru had long been disturbed, and whieli noboily had been able to explain beforo. Jaháríra not only au-wered all the questions put to him, but he also propounded various kinds of graminatiçal rules, and his utterances Lecume the Jainendra grannar. The Guru, delighted with what he had heard, mado Mabávíra # Guru tou, and saluted by Sudra, the child returneil home with his parents." (Talian Antiquury for March, 1881.) In thu Bhagavata, the story occurs in connexion with Ksishṇa.
. The wrestling fonts are obviously revised versions of the gynnastic exercises of the Paņạns and the Kurms, and tbe archery follows the story of Arjuna's feat at the court of Drupada, who had promised to give away bis daughter Draupadí to whoever would hit a target (a fish) from its shadow in a saucer of water. The bow incident comes from the Rámáyana, and in Europe it hau ils counterpart in Homer.
