A History of Sanskrit Literature c24.s2.3

c24.s2.3

³ From the *Mahābhārata*, xii. 138. 13 ff.; 139. 47 ff.; 111. 3 ff., three are taken; one is Buddhist (cf. A. Schiefner, *Bharatae Responsa* (1875) in Tibetan; Zachariae, *Kl. Schriften*, pp. 49 ff.); one the tale of the man in the well (see Nöldeke, *Burzōes Einleitung zu dem Buche Kalīla wa Dimna*, 1912); one of the lion and jackal also probably Buddhist; one of grateful beasts and ungrateful men; one of four friends, perhaps Buddhist; one of the mouse king and his minister is Indian in spirit.