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² Similarly in Majjhimanikāya No. 130, where, however, there are five messengers of the gods. Cf. Oldenberg, Buddha, p. 263; L. Scherman, Materialien zur Geschichte der indischen Visionsliteratur, Leipzig 1892, p. 60 f. Parallel passages from European literatures (e.g., *Grimm's* Household Tales, Nr. 177 "The messengers of death," which was already known in the 13th century, and *La Fontaine's* fable VIII, 1 "La mort et le mourant") have been quoted by *R. Morris* in JPTS 1885, pp. 62-75. Cf. also *Grimm*, Kinder- und Hausmärchen, III 8, Göttingen 1856, p. 249.