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Additional note 6, to p. 31: Miraculous cures.
Miraculous or skilful cures are common in fiction. Thus, e. g., secretions of ascetics cure diseases in our text, 6. 1226; Kathakoça, p. 36; Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen aus dem Māhārāṣṭrī, p. 27, 1. 35 ff.; dust from ascetics' feet does the same thing, Daçakumāracarita, ii, p. 45; leprosy is cured by dung, Hertel, Das Pañcatantra, pp. 128, 279. Poison is cured by prayers, charms, or charmed water, Kathakoça, p. 102; Daçakumāracarita, i, pp. 11, 49; Jacobi, 1. c., p. 83, verse 274. Especially the jewel from a serpent's head cures poison in Campakaçreṣṭhikathanakam; see Hertel, ZDMG. lxv, pp. 436 note 1, 451. Ser also the tale of Jivaka in Ralston, Tibetan Tales, pp. 58 ff. Cf. Benfey, Das Pañcatantra, vol. i, pp. 518, 534. For folklore, see Steel and Temple, Wide-Awake Stories, p. 417, bottom.
Additional note 7, to p. 32: Hansa bird and crow.
This fable of the harsa and the crow, as well as its integral traits, are most popular in Hindu fiction. The fable itself Hitopadeça, 3, 4; Jātaka 140; Hemavijaya, Kathāratnākara, 90; Pañcākhyānavārttika, nr. 20 (the last two quoted or cited by Hertel, Das Pañcatantra, p. 143); Rouse, The Talking Thrush, pp. 53, 203. Alluded to fragmentarily, Kathakoça, p. 165. The Siamese Paksi Pakaranam contains two fables directed against any kind of intercourse between swan and crow; see Hertel, Das Pañcatantra, pp. 348, 353. The lowness of the crow is contrasted with the distinction of the hansa in Kathakoça, pp. 186, 223; Samayāmātṛkā (Meyer's Translation), p. xvii; ZMDG. lxi. 51 note 4, 57; Böhtlingk's Indische Sprüche, 1137, 1613, 1616, 3500, 6211. Kathās. 112. 96 asks, 'How can a crow and a female swan ever unite?' See also the old fable of the race between the hansa and crow, Mahābh. 8. 41. 1 ff., and cf. Jātaka 160. For defecating crow see also Sprüche 5204; Parker, Folk-Tales, vol. i, p. 224.
In Pañcatantra 2. 3; Pūrṇabhadra 1. 12 association between hansa and owl results in destruction of the former. On the other hand the vile crow is contrasted with other birds than the hansa, especially the kokila: Kathas. 21. 80; Parçvanatha 5. 174; Bambhadatta (Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen), p. 5, 1. 20; Sprüche, 1612, 1922, 2928, 3248, 6124, 7292. Other animals that misbehave
