A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.277
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² This is a dialogue between the father and the son in eight verses, the meaning of which is quite clear even without the prose. On the stūpa of Bharhut there is a very beautiful relief (Cunningham, Stūpa of Bharhut, Pl. 47, Fig. 3), showing how the youth gives the cow grass to eat, and his father stands behind him. The same story in the Commentary to Petavatthu, s. Bimala Charan *Law*, The Buddhist Conception of Spirits, Calcutta 1923, pp. 21 f.