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ADDITIONAL NOTES
These are, in general, longer comments whose presence in the body of the book would interrupt the connection, or distract the attention of the reader. They are for the most part either small treatises, or bibliografical summaries of the leading fiction motifs which are braided into the stories. The author, with a view to future encyclopedic treatment (see his Program in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, xxxvi. 54 ff.), has undertaken to furnish these motifs with that caption under which it seemed to him fit or likely that they may in future pass current among students of fiction. For these subjective conclusions he begs, where possible, the complacent, or even indulgent consent of other workers in this field. Settled conventions in this regard are a prime technical help in the systematical study of fiction, more important than personal preferences, however justified these might be when taken up singly by themselves; consider, e. g., such motif captions as • Cave Call," "Tortoise-on-Stick, or Count not your chickens before they are Hatched,' on pp. 58 ff. of the article cited above.
The numerous citations following, for the most part, explain themselves. The Daçakumāra Carita is cited in the edition in two volumes, by Bühler and Peterson, in the Bombay Sanskrit Series, volumes x and xlii. Pradyumnācārya’s Samarādityasamkşepa (ed. Jacobi, Ahmedabad 1906) is cited as Samarād. The source of the last-mentioned work, the Prākrit Samarāïccakahā, is not completely in my hands, and is, therefore, cited rarely
Additional note 1, to p. 29: Promise to return.
This motif of fiction may be designated conventionally as, Promise to return. The return, on its face, it always to sure destruction or to an evil fate; yet turns out happily for the returner. In Kathāsaritsagara 123. 170 ff. Keçaţa comes upon a Raksasa who proposes to devour him. Kecața swears that he will return, after having done a service he promised. He is allowed to go, and marries Rūpavati. In the night, after lying awake despondently, he starts to return, but is followed by Rūparatī, who has noticed his
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