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² This "Solomon's judgment" forms the nucleus of the Chinese play "Hoei-lanki or the chalk circle." It may be regarded as certain that this anecdote and the Judgment of Solomon in I. Kings 3, 16-28, could not have originated independently of each other. *A. Weber*, Indische Streifen III, p. 60, regards it as out of the question that the Jews had borrowed it from the Indians, similarly *Garbe*, Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity, Chicago 1911, p. 12, note 16. On the other hand, *Hugo Cressmann* (Deutsche Rundschau, Vol. 33, 1907, pp. 212 ff.) has adduced very good reasons in favour of its Indian origin. Cf. also *Th. Benfey*, Kleine Schriften II, 170 f.; *R. Köhler*, Kleinere Schriften I, 531 ff.; *H. Gaidoz*, Mélusine, t. IV; *R. Engelmann* in Hermes, Vol. 39, 1904, 148 f.; *T. W. Rhys Davids*, Buddh. Birth Stories, p. xliv ff; *Zachariae*, Kleine Schriften, pp. 150 ff.