[26] This is the well-known town in the Panjāb called by the Greeks Taxila, and famed in Buddhist legend as the great university of ancient India, as Nālanda was in later times.
[27] Literally “without partiality and the rest,” that is, the rest of the agatis, the actions forbidden to judges (and to kings as judges).
[28] The gates opening towards the four “directions,” that is, the four cardinal points of the compass.
[29] Mahā Bhārata, v. 1518. Another passage at iii. 13253 is very similar.
[30] Mahā Bhārata, xii. 4052. See Dr. Muir’s “Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers” (1879), pp. xxxi, 88, 275, 356.
[31] Similar passages will also be found in Lao Tse, Douglas’s Confucianism, etc., p. 197; Pancha Tantra, i. 247 (277) = iv. 72; in Stobæus, quoted by Muir, p. 356; and in St. Matthew, v. 44-46; whereas the Mallika doctrine is inculcated by Confucius (Legge, Chinese Classics, i. 152).
[32] The names are corruptions of the Indian names of the two jackals, Karatak and Damanak, who take a principal part in the first of the fables.
[33] Phædo, p. 61. Comp. Bentley, Dissertation on the Fables of Æsop, p. 136.
[34] Vespæ, 566, 1259, 1401, and foll.; and Aves, 651 and foll.
[35] Arist. de part. anim., iii. 2; Lucian Nigr., 32.