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1881); Sindabad Cycle (Clouston, 50, 150, 235), tr. Tawney, i. 60, Katha-Sarit-Sagara.
Derivates of Indian. — Divya Vadmia, ed. Co well and Neil, 524-6; Tibetan in J.R.A.S., 1888, 504-6; Chinese, Beal, Romantic Legend, 332-40 ; Buddhist Eeeords, ii. 241.
Literature. — H. Wenzel, A Jataka Tale from Tibetan in J.R.A.S., I.e. ; Kuhn, 81 ; Hommel, 172.]
Xll.a. The Amorous Wife.
A young man, having married a wife of a passionate temperament, told her whenever she could not restrain her feelings to let down her hair as a signal. It happened that a war broke out, and the young man was summoned to join the army. But just as he was leaving, his wife let down her hair, and the battle was won without him. When he was remonstrated with, he replied, "I had an enemy at home with whom I had to fight."
[Occurrences in Barlaam. — Only in Georg. version, in the conversation between Theudas and the King. Literature. — Hommel in Weisslovitz, 148.]
Xlll.a. The Youth who had never seen a Woman.
Z. xiv., L, p. 220, C. 446.
A king had a son born to him in his old age, and was warned by his astrologers and physicians that his son would be blind if he ever saw the light before he was twelve years old. Accordingly the King built for him a subterranean chamber, where he was kept till he was past the fatal age. There-