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A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.248

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### [v2.c19.s3.t2.248](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.248)

² Jāt. No. 257, translated in German verse by J. J. \*Meyer\*, Kāvysaṃgraha, pp. 46 ff. The same story is retold after the Tibetan Dsanglun by \*Benfey\*, Pantschatantra, I, 393 ff., and traced through universal literature down to Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." Cf. also Tawney in Journal of Philology, XII, 1883, 112 ff.

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## Cites (1)

- [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.257) — Pāli

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