[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t2.221 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.221 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.221 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.221) A man had once saved the life of his wife by giving her his own blood to drink. She, however, falls in love with a wretched cripple. In order to be able to belong entirely to the latter, she pushes her husband down from a hill. He is saved by a lizard, however, and in a strange way becomes king, in which capacity he has the opportunity of seeing his unfaithful wife again with her cripple lover, and of punishing her.\[^1) - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.220) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.222](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.222) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) ## Cites (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.193) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.221) · Pramāṇa