[4] For tayá in śl. 10. b, the Sanskrit College MS. reads tathá.
[5] Praśnayaḥ in Professor Brockhaus’s text should be praśvayaḥ.
[6] An allusion to the Ardhanáríśa, (i. e. half male half female,) representation of Śiva.
[7] Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, p. 185, note, seems to refer to a similar story. He says, “The fastening of heads, that have been chopped off, to their trunks in Waltharius 1157 seems to imply a belief in their reanimation;” see also Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, p. 111. So St. Beino fastened on the head of Winifred after it had been cut off by Caradoc; (Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 348). A head is cut off and fastened on again in the Glücksvogel, Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, p. 108. In Coelho’s Portuguese Stories, No. XXVI, O Colhereiro, the 3rd daughter fastens on, in the Bluebeard chamber, with blood, found in a vase marked with their names, the heads of her decapitated sisters.
[8] Cp. Giles’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, pp. 98, 99; Do Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. I, pp. 303 and 304.
Chapter LXXXI.
Then king Trivikramasena went back to the aśoka-tree, and again found the Vetála there, and took him on his shoulder. As he was going along with him, the Vetála said to him on the way, “King, listen to me, I will tell you a story to make you forget your fatigue.”