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# The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.26

The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.26

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### [c6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.26)

IV. Still further on (CUNNINGHAM, XXV, 2), born an elephant, he exterminates, with the help of his faithful wife, a terrible enemy of his race, an enormous crab, « as broad as a threshing-floor », which, in order to devour them, had hidden itself at the bottom of the lake in which the pachyderms were accustomed to bathe (\*Jât.\* 267).

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## Cites (1)

- [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.267) — Pāli

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