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² The numerous Buddhistic versions of this Jātaka No. 537 in Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan literature, and its fore-runners in the epic-puranic tradition, have been treated in detail by K. *Watanabe*, in JPTS., 1909, pp. 236 ff. Cf. *Charpentier* in WZKM., 23, 1909, p. 161, note 3; 24, 1910, p. 396 note. *Pavolini* (GSAI., 25, 324) also refers to H. *Kern* in Versl. en Meded. der Kon. Akad. van Wetensch., Afd. Letterk. IV, 11, pp. 170 ff. J. S. *Speyer*, and after him R. *Garbe* (Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity, Chicago 1911, pp. 42 ff. and Indien und das Christentum, Tübingen 1914, pp. 101-111) seek to establish a connection between the Christian legend of Saint Christopher and this Jātaka; but the two legends have nothing in common but the conversion of a cannibal giant; the Christian legend bears no trace of the actual nucleus of the Buddhist fairy-tale. See also H. *Günter*, Buddha in der abendländischen Legende? Leipzig 1922, pp. 19 ff.