[7] See Vol. I, p. 176.

[8] The Sanskrit College MS. has balád for the balí of Brockhaus’s edition. For the “wager” see Vol. I, p. 182.

[9] The Sanskrit College MS. reads Tárkshyan nánákranda nityákarṇana nirghṛiṇam.

[10] The Sanskrit College MS. has sánunayám.

[11] The Sanskrit College MS. reads vidadhyád. This is the reading which I follow hero in preference to that of Brockhaus.

[12] Cp. Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, p. 594. See Bernhard Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, p. 106.

[13] The MS. in the Sanskrit College reads anyam̱ vṛittátmánam̱: anyam̱ at any rate must be right.

Chapter XCI.

(Vetála 17.)