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² The parable was also familiar to the Brahmanical philosophers, among whom "the rule of the blind men and the elephant" (andhagajanyāya) has become proverbial. Cf. G. A. *Jacob*, A Second Handful of Popular Maxims, Bombay 1902, p. 53, and JRAS 1902, p. 174; T. W. *Rhys Davids*, JRAS 1911, p. 200 f. It occurs also in the Jaina Syādvādamañjarī, see V. S. *Ghate*, Ind. Ant. 42, 1913, p. 251.