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¹ Jāt. No. 67. Cf. Herodotus, III, 119. Sophocles, Antigone, 909 to 912. *Pischel*, in Hermes, Vol. 28, 1893, 465 ff., believes that the anecdote is of Indian origin; Th. *Noeldeke*, in the same journal, Vol. 29, 1894, 155 f., is in favour of Persian origin; *R. O. Franke*, Theolog. Literaturzeitung, 1914, p. 166, is for Perso-Indian, and C. H. Tawney, Ind. Ant. X, 1881, 370 f., for Greek origin.