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Additional Notes
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But the gods themselves have set a frightful example of unchastity, incest, and worse; see the catalog of their sexual crimes in Daçakumāracarita i. pp. 44, 71; and Gray's Vasavadattā, p. 129. Men are no better; hence stories of the 'David and Uriah' variety. In addition to the present gripping account, king Vikramayaças, possessor of a hundred wives,' corrupts Visņuçri, the beautiful spouse of the merchant Nagadatta, with baleful results that extend thru several rebirths; see the episode in the story of Sanatkumăra, Pārçvanatha 6. 1057 ff.; Kathākoça, p. 32 ff.; Jacobi, Ausgewählte Erzählungen in Mahārāṣṭrī, p. 24, 11. 14 ff.1 See also Hitopadeça 1. 8; Kathās. 32. 147 ff.; 34. 10 ff.; Jātakas 120, 194, 314, 443; Dhammapada Commentary b. 1; Kathākoça, pp. 13 ff. (cf. p. 235); Nirmala Çrāvaka, reported by Hertel, Das Pañcatantra, pp. 231 ff.; Benfey, Kleinere Schriften, vol. ii, p. 101.
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A variant of this story, briefly treated, in the Catrumjaya Mahatmyam, sarga 1; see Indian Antiquary xxx. 241; cf. p. 292.
