[3] Of course Karpara is the Sanskrit for pot. In fact the two friends’ names might be represented in English by Pitcher and Pott. In modern Hindu funerals boiled rice is given to the dead. So I am informed by my friend Pandit Śyámá Charaṇ Mukhopádhyáya, to whom I am indebted for many kind hints.
[4] I read áhṛitendhanaḥ. The Sanskrit College MS. seems to me to give hṛitendhana.
[5] So Frau Claradis in “Die Heimonskinder” advises her husband not to trust her father (Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. II, p. 131.)
[6] The Sanskrit College MS. has mama for the mayá of Dr. Brockhaus.
[7] Mr. Gough has kindly pointed out to me a passage in the Sarvadarśana Sangraha which explains this. The following is Mr. Gough’s translation of the passage; “We must consider this teaching as regards the four points of view. These are that
- (1) Everything is momentary and momentary only:
- (2) Everything is pain and pain only:
- (3) Everything is individual and individual only:
- (4) Everything is baseless and baseless only.”
Chapter LXV.
The next evening Gomukha told Naraváhanadatta this story to amuse him as before.