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² Nigrodhamiga-Jātaka (No. 12). The Christian legend of Saint Placidus or Eustachius, who is said to have been converted through a stag, on whose forehead the sign of the cross was shining, is traced back to this Jātaka by some scholars. Cf. *M. Gaster*, JRAS., 1894, 335 ff.; *J. S. Speyer* in Theolog. Tijdskrift 40, 1906, 427ff.; *E. Kuhn* in Beil. Allg. Ztg. 9th Nov. 1906; *R. Garbe*, Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity, p. 30ff.; Indien und das Christentum, pp. 86 ff.; *W. Bousset* in NGGW 1916, 469 ff.; *W. Meyer*, ibidem, pp. 762ff.; *Clemen*, Theolog. Literaturzeitung 42, 1917, 257 ff.; *H. Günter*, Buddha in der abendländischen Legende? Leipzig 1922, pp. 7ff. I am not convinced that there is any connection between them.