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¹ A much simpler form of a snake charm, which, however, is to serve as a means of warding off snake-bite, is already to be found in the Vinaya-Piṭaka, Culla-Vagga V, 6, where the snakes are appeased by the Buddhist friendliness (metta, maitrī). Cf. also Jātaka 203, Dīgha-Nikāya 32, and Aṅguttara-Nikāya IV, 67 (Vol. II, p. 72). A Sūtra, similar to the Megha-Sūtra, is the Diśa-Svastika-Sūtra, which has come down to us in the Uiguric language in a fragment from Turfan (Tiśastvustik by W. Radloff and Baron A. von Staël-Holstein, Bibl. Buddhica XII, St. Petersburg, 1910).