A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.301

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¹ Such spells, or Saccakiriyās (literally "confirmations of truth") which consist of a person's referring to his virtue, and thereby performing a miracle, are not rare in the Buddhist legends; we also meet with them in the epic (thus in the Nalopākhyāna, Mahābhārata III, 63) and frequently in the later narrative literature. Cf. E. W. Burlingame, JRAS 1917, pp. 429 ff., and N. M. *Penzer*, New Edition of C. H. Tawney's Translation of Kathāsaritsāgara, I, 166 f.; II, 31 ff.; III, 179 ff.