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There exists in India a treatise for finding out whether a woman is a 'poison-damsel.' It is called Vişakanyā-lakṣaṇa. It is part of a treatise on horoscopes; see Weber, Handschriften-Verzeichnisse, vol. I, p. 263 (nr. 879), note 2.
Additional note 18, to p. 62: Pragmatic çloka.
This motif may be designated as pragmatic, or, perhaps, drastic çloka. Such stanzas figure in the Nala Episode of Mahābhārata, 16 and 17; Kathās. 20. 35, 212; Vāsavadattā (Gray's Translation, p. 93); Kathākoça, p. 28; Çatrumjaya Māhātmyam (Indian Antiquary, xxx. 241); Jātakas 214, 338, 373. Love messages in çloka, Pārsvanātha 8. 8 ff.; Samarād. 2. 93 ff.; Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen, p. 12, 1. 3. See for this entire theme, Benfey, Pancatantra, vol. i, pp. 320, 598; Hertel, Das Pañcatantra, pp. 46, 142, 233, 297, 375; Charpentier, Paccekabuddhageschichten, pp. 3 ff., 25 ff., 35; the author in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. lvi, p. 14, note 27; Gray in the Introduction to his Translation of Vāsavadattā, p. 35.
Additional note 19, to p. 64: Josef and Potifar's wife. This motif is one of the stock of incidental and progress making devices of Hindu fiction. It takes three forms: either the woman tempts and the man rejects her; thus particularly in the impressive Mahāpaduma Jātaka (472). Or, a woman, out of hatred, pretends that a man has made overtures to her, so as to get him into trouble. Or, finally, more rarely, the woman tempts, and the man succumbs. A preliminary bibliografy of the subject is as follows: Mahābh. 1. 103. 1 ff.; 13. 19. 1 ff.-20 end; Kathāsaritsāgara 7. 57; 20. 118; 49. 30; Pārsvanātha 3. 400; 7. 44; Jātaka 472; Samarād. 2. 91 ff.; 5. 98 ff.; Kathāprakāça, in Gurupūjākāumudī, p. 125; Ralston, Tibetan Tales, pp. 102, 206, 282; Steel and Temple, Wide-Awake Stories, p. 222. Cf. W. A. Clouston, The Book of Sindibād, pp. xix ff.
Additional note 20, to p. 65: Pañcadivyâdhiväsa. This subject receives additional light from several passages of our text. The theme has been treated a good deal recently, especially by Edgerton in his article, ' Pañcadivyādhivāsa, or Choosing a
