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² Dramatic as many of these ballads are—L. Feer (JA 1895, s. 9, t. V, pp. 47 ff.), for instance, calls the Chaddanta-Jātaka (No. 514) "un véritable drame," and the same could be said of many other Jātakas—we can scarcely look upon them as "dramas" in the true sense of the word. What has been said above, p. 59 ff, regarding the ballads of the Saṃyuttanikāya may be applied to these ballads also.