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⁵ J. J. *Meyer*, Hindu Tales, p. 83, note 1. According to K. *Seidenstücker* ("Der Buddhist," 2, 1910, 456 f., quoted by *Günter*, Buddha, p. 86 f.) the legend of the dog's carcass is Buddhist, as it is told in the Commentary on the Udāna-Varga. The same legend, in which Jesus plays the part of Vāsudeva, has been retold by *Goethe* (in the "Noten und Abhandlungen zum besseren Verständnis des westöstlichen Diwans") after the Persian poet *Nisami*. The story of Satānīka and Pradyota from Haribhadra's Commentary on the Āvaśyaka*, is given by *Hertel*, Jinakīrtis "Geschichte von Pāla und Gopāla," p. 98 ff. The text of the stories of the former existences of Jina Ṛṣabha after Haribhadra's Commentary on the Āvaśyaka-Niryukti (AUS, Bombay 1916) reprinted in *Jaina Jātakas*, ed. by *Banarsi das Jain*, Lahore 1925, p. xix ff.