Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c23.21

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³ Burton, *The Book of the Thousand Nights*, I. 12ff; Olcott, *Stories from the Arabian Nights*, p. 3; Lane's *Arabian Nights*, pp. 8-9. A similar story is found in *Lambaka* X, *taraṅga* 8 of the *Kathā-sarit-sāgara*; Penzer, *The Ocean of Story*, Vol. V. pp. 151-52. "So attachment to women, the result of infatuation produces misery to all men. But indifference to them produces in the discerning emancipation from the bonds of existence."