[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t5.41 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.41 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.41 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.41) 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). - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.40) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.42) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5) ## Cites (5) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.203) — Pāli - [Cullavagga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.khandhaka.cullavagga.5.6) — Pāli - [Ahirājasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.4.67) — Pāli - [Dīghanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha) — Pāli - [Vinayapiṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.41) · Pramāṇa