[254] Mbh. i. 4193-4211.
[255] Mbh. i. 4211-4216.
[256] We shall find the lame goat in the chapter which treats of the Lamb and the Goat.
[257] 1908.
[258] v. 12.
[259] The word badhiras means here the crooked, the crippled one, and not the deaf (from the root badh or vadh, to wound, to cut); the more so that here the name of the blind man's companion is Mantharakas, a word which properly means the slow one. The curved line and the slow line correspond; and the curved one, who cannot stand upright, may be the hunchback just as well as the cripple, the crooked, the lame.—Cfr. The chapter on the Tortoise.
[260] For the incident of the hunchback who betrays the blind man, in the same popular tale, cfr. next chapter.
[261] i. 6527.
[262] Sâudâminîva ćâbhreshu tatrâevântaradhîyata; Mbh. i. 6557.
[263] Tasminnṛipatiçârdûle pravishṭe nagaraṁ punaḥ pravavarsha sahasrâkshaḥ çasyâni ǵanayanprabhuḥ; Mbh. 6629, 6630.